INDIANOLA, Iowa — Elizabeth Warren shrugged off Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s endorsement snub after Bernie Sanders beat her to the liberal firebrand’s support.
“I am a fan of the congresswoman. She’s done some terrific work. We have worked together, and I know that once this primary is over we’re all going to be on the same side,” the Massachusetts senator said in Iowa on Sunday.
Ocasio-Cortez, a New York House Democrat, was wooed by both Warren and Sanders, a Senate colleague from Vermont, as the pair vie for the right to challenge President Trump in 2020. In one video, Warren and Ocasio-Cortez joked about Game of Thrones.
The trio are considered to be the driving force behind the liberal faction of the party but there are differences. Sanders has pushed socialist policies since his years as mayor in Burlington, Vermont, from 1981-89, as a House member for 16 years and a senator since 2007. Ocasio-Cortez is a self-described “democratic socialist,” and Warren still considers herself to be a capitalist.
At his “comeback” rally in New York on Saturday, held after an extended break following a heart attack, Ocasio-Cortez, 30, cast Sanders, 78, as the father of the liberal movement.
“We right now have one of the best Democratic presidential primary fields in a generation and much of that is thanks to the work that Bernie Sanders has done in his entire life,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
Warren is on a three-day swing of Iowa, the first-in-the-nation voting state. Her first stop on Sunday was at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa.
