Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told her followers there was “no sugarcoating” Sen. Bernie Sanders’s performance against Joe Biden in the latest round of 2020 Democratic primaries.
“There’s no sugarcoating it. Tonight is a tough night,” the New York Democrat said Tuesday night on Instagram Live. “Tonight is a tough night electorally.”
Biden topped Sanders in four of the six states that voted in Tuesday’s contests, while the two remaining states have not yet declared a victor.
“If you win a race, you win a race,” Ocasio-Cortez said about Biden’s wins.
‘Tonight’s a tough night for the movement.’ — @AOC took to Instagram Live to quell the anxieties of young progressives on a night of primary losses for Bernie Sanders pic.twitter.com/NIY5EL1Kel
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The socialist representative has been critical of the former vice president, saying in the past that the Democratic Party has “too big of a tent.”
“In any other country, Joe Biden and I would not be in the same party, but in America, we are,” she added at the time.
However, Ocasio-Cortez has said that she would support Biden if he secures the party’s nomination.
“I’ve said throughout this entire process that what is so important is that we ultimately unite behind who that Democratic nominee is,” she told Late Night host Seth Meyers last week.
As of Wednesday morning, Biden leads Sanders in the delegate count 823 to 663, respectively. A total of 1,991 delegates are required to become the party’s next standard-bearer.
