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Ocasio-Cortez: Impeaching Trump ‘is about preventing a potentially disastrous outcome’ in 2020

By Mike Brest
Published November 14, 2019 2:45pm ET
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Ocasio-Cortez: Impeaching Trump ‘is about preventing a potentially disastrous outcome’ in 2020
In this June 27, 2018 photo, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is photographed while being interviewed in Rockefeller Center in New York. Ready or not, change is coming to the House Democrats. Across the country, a new generation of Democrats is making its way to Washington. | (Mary Altaffer/AP)

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez admitted that the Democrats’ efforts to investigate President Trump are, in part, meant to prevent him from winning reelection in November 2020.

The freshman New York congresswoman made the admission in an interview on CNN Wednesday evening, hours after the House had its first public hearing in the impeachment investigation into Trump’s foreign policy decisions regarding Ukraine.

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