New and old unite: Ocasio-Cortez endorses Warren for President

By: Oliver Goldman

(Sydney Hastings-Wilkins)

Silver Spring, Md. -- On Tuesday morning, the Warren Campaign welcomed Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York’s 14th District to their campaign headquarters. Sitting alongside Democratic nominee Elizabeth Warren, the upshot 29-year-old officially endorsed Elizabeth Warren’s bid for president.

Ocasio-Cortez has become one of the leading members of the progressive wing of the

Democratic Party since her upset win against a ten-term incumbent of New York’s 14 th District in the 2018 midterm election. Over the past 24-hours, rumors have swirled as to whetherOcasio-Cortez would back Warren’s bid, or instead support Pete Buttigieg, who announced as athird-party challenger from the Progressive party on Monday.

She acknowledged these rumors, saying, “I know a lot were unsure of where my faith would

lie.” Some of this uncertainty was raised Monday when Pete Buttigieg announced in a Tweet

that the two had formed a partnership and would be running-mates on the ticket. After the

point was quickly raised by the Daily Direction that Ocasio-Cortez did not meet the 35-year-old Constitutional age limit to run for Vice President, Ocasio-Cortez then rebuffed those rumors and denied ever agreeing to such a partnership.

On Tuesday during her announcement she spoke on the matter, saying she “[does] not

appreciate some of [Buttigieg’s] reckless actions over the past couple of days…I never agreed,

privately or publicly, that I supported him before he Tweeted that I did.”

She took a more personal shot at the 37-year-old Progressive candidate, who has since

withdrawn his bid for the presidency, saying she didn’t agree to the partnership because

“unlike him, [she’s] actually read the Constitution.”

Ocasio-Cortez then focused her attention on the matter at hand: her new partnership with the

senior Senator from Massachusetts. She said, “she and I are in full agreement that Washington

has become a place where those who have millions and billions of dollars…[leave] behind the

working class.”

“We need a change,” she said, “and that change is Elizabeth Warren.”

The dapper 29-year-old Representative dressed in a black suit with bright red lipstick then laid out some of the prongs of the Warren team’s agenda that she was most closely aligned with, including rebuilding the middle class, eliminating the use of ‘super-PACs’, increasing access to health care and education, and addressing the imminent climate questions the United States faces.