AOC thanks Harris, Walz and Biden in DNC speech: ‘Kamala is for you’

CHICAGO — New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez highlighted Vice President Kamala Harris’ center class roots in her speech to delegates on the Democratic Nationwide Conference on Monday — evaluating her personal background as a waitress to Harris’ beginnings. 

“Six years in the past I used to be taking on-line orders as a waitress in New York. I didn’t have medical insurance, my household was combating off foreclosures,” AOC stated, including that her household was “drained” of politics that have been “blind” to the wants of working individuals.

“Solely by means of the miracles of Democracy and group did the nice individuals of the Bronx and Queens select somebody like me to elect them in Congress,” she continued. 

The identical “hope” and “aspiration” that obtained her into Congress will get Harris and Walz into the White Home, she stated.

Harris is “for the center class” as a result of “she is from the center class,” Ocasio-Cortez stated.The left-wing rep obtained a heat welcome from the DNC crowd, with attendees chanting “AOC” as she walked out on stage. However the 34-year-old lawmaker’s loudest applause got here when she talked about Harris’ strategy to the Gaza Strip.

Comply with together with The Publish’s dwell reporting of the Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago.

Ocasio-Cortez stated Harris is “working tirelessly to safe a cease-fire in Gaza and to convey the hostages dwelling,” speakingabout the Israeli warfare with Hamas, probably the most fiery protest matter on the DNC.

In the meantime, anti-Israeli protesters disrupted visitors outdoors the DNC conference heart earlier, resulting in visitors jams and delays in getting visitors and press contained in the conference heart after one protester breached the fence.

“Thanks Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in your imaginative and prescient. And thanks Joe Biden in your management,” AOC went on in her speech. 

Republicans have in contrast ultra-progressive “Squad” member Ocasio-Cortez’s liberal insurance policies Harris’ — in a bid to argue that the vp has a extra liberal agenda than President Biden. 

Ocasio-Cortez tore into former President Donald Trump in fiery remarks as nicely, arguing that he cannot “love this nation” as a result of he fights for Wall Road and “massive enterprise.”