Ocasio-Cortez tweets endorsement of Sanders

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) tweeted her endorsement of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Saturday after appearing at his rally in the New York City borough of Queens.

“Today I am endorsing Senator @BernieSanders for president,” she wrote. 

“In the end, we must come together to defeat Donald Trump. We should do so knowing he is a symptom of a larger problem – and our greatest hope is a multiracial, working class movement in the United States of America,” she added. 

The progressive freshman lawmaker also tweeted a Sanders campaign video in which she expresses her support for the senator. 

“We need to have a revolution of working-class people, and it needs to be multiracial, multigendered, multigenerational,” she said in the video. 

“When you talk to Bernie, he doesn’t talk about making a movement so that he can get elected. He talks about his campaign as part of a mass movement in America, and that’s the kind of leadership that I think we need right now,” Ocasio-Cortez added. 

Today I am endorsing Senator @BernieSanders for president.

In the end, we must come together to defeat Donald Trump. We should do so knowing he is a symptom of a larger problem – and our greatest hope is a multiracial, working class movement in the United States of America. pic.twitter.com/9fiTS7FTX9

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 19, 2019

On Saturday she also spoke at Sanders’s campaign rally in New York City.{mosads}

“It wasn’t until I heard of a man by the name of Bernie Sanders that I began to question and assert and recognize my inherent value as a human being that deserves health care, housing, education and a living wage,” Ocasio-Cortez said. 

The lawmaker’s support could boost Sanders in the Democratic race, where he has been competing with fellow progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) for votes. 

News of Ocasio-Cortez’s endorsement of Sanders came out before Tuesday’s Democratic debate, in which Sanders appeared following a recent heart attack. 

Sanders also has been endorsed by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a close ally of Ocasio-Cortez.