Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argued a brokered convention to determine the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee would end up putting the eventual pick at a disadvantage.

“I hope just for the sake of the party overall that this does not get to a brokered convention,” the New York Democrat, a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s White House campaign, told CNN on Wednesday. “I think that hurts the nominee, whoever the nominee is.”

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