It’s rare to see a progressive get airtime on prime-time cable news. It’s even rarer to see America’s two biggest progressives get airtime on prime-time cable channels, but that’s what happened when CNN hosted Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for a town hall.
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Collins asked Ocasio-Cortez about Republican claims that Chuck Schumer supports shutting down the government to avoid a Senate primary challenge from AOC.
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez responded:
This shows how desperate they are. They say that because. They refuse to do their job. They are looking for straws. They try to talk about political tabloids, political intrigue and horse racing.
The kind of thing people are sick of in this country. Mm-hmm. We are fed up. We’re tired of talking about these horse races and we’re tired of leaders who just want to spend their time talking about that instead of talking about real issues that affect our lives, instead of talking about health care, instead of talking about wages, instead of talking about having clean air to breathe. And water. And drinking water and that’s it. Honestly, I’m amazed that the Speaker of the House would waste his time on something so senseless and stupid instead of actually caring about the plight of his own constituents who are suffering at the hands of his leadership.
Collins, of course, then asked about the horse race: “But are you saying that Senator Schumer shouldn’t be worried about a primary challenge from you?”
Read and watch how Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez handled Collins below.