Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: I’m ‘a consensus builder’, not ‘a flamethrower’

Published January 7, 2019 1:44am ET



Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said she doesn’t mind being labeled “radical,” but she doesn’t see herself as a “flamethrower.”

“There’s a lot of folks that I think sometimes want to brand me as a flamethrower. But really the truth, I think the truth of what I am is a consensus builder,” Ocasio-Cortez told CBS’ “60 Minutes” in a behind-the-scenes clip from her Sunday night interview.

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