CHICAGO — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) sought to appeal to the middle class during her speech on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention on Monday evening.
The “Squad” Democrat highlighted her background as a bartender in New York City in her remarks, saying that “like millions of Americans,” her family was “just looking for an honest shake, and we were tired of a cynical politics that seemed blind to the realities of working people.”
“Ever since I got elected, Republicans have attacked me by saying that I should go back to bartending,” she said. “But let me tell you, I am happy to, any day of the week because there is nothing wrong with working for a living.”
Ocasio-Cortez, greeted by chants of “AOC,” argued that America has a “rare and precious opportunity” with Vice President Kamala Harris as the party nominee as she “is for the middle class because she is from the middle class, she understands the urgency of the rent checks and groceries and prescriptions.”
Contrasting Harris with Trump, Ocasio-Cortez asserted that “Donald Trump would sell this country for a dollar if it meant lining his own pockets and greasing the palms of his Wall Street friends.”
“I, for one, am tired of hearing about how a two-bit union buster thinks of himself as more of a patriot than the woman who fights every single day to lift working people out from under the boots of greed trampling on our way of life,” she said during her speech. “The truth is Don, you cannot love this country if you only fight for the wealthy and big business.”
