{"id":1043791,"date":"2021-11-22T11:13:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T16:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1043791"},"modified":"2021-11-22T11:13:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T16:13:45","slug":"ocasio-cortez-says-it-was-a-mistake-not-to-include-her-and-her-far-left-colleagues-in-democrats-virginia-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ocasio-cortez-says-it-was-a-mistake-not-to-include-her-and-her-far-left-colleagues-in-democrats-virginia-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocasio-Cortez Says It Was \u2018A Mistake\u2019 Not To Include Her And Her Far Left Colleagues In Democrats\u2019 Virginia Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Focasio-cortez-says-it-was-a-mistake-not-to-include-her-and-her-far-left-colleagues-in-democrats-virginia-race%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1043791&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez expressed frustration that she and her progressive colleagues were not brought in to help secure a Democratic victory in Virginia earlier in the month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore the Virginia elections, it was very clear that our help and our participation was not wanted or asked for. I think it\u2019s just sad. I think it was a mistake,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez stated in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/21\/us\/politics\/aoc-democrats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Times<\/a> article published Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw a big youth turnout collapse. Not a single person asked me to send an e-mail, not even to my own list. And then they turn around and say \u2018It\u2019s their fault.\u2019 When I think it was communicated quite expressly that we were unwelcome to pitch in,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Glenn Youngkin beat Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe in an <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/election-2021-virginia-governor-glenn-youngkin-mcaulife-6cdbf77acf9a966e216ab2a297601baa\">upset<\/a> in the Virginia gubernatorial race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that the results show the limits of trying to run a fully 100% super moderated campaign that does not excite, speak to or energize a progressive base,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/04\/aoc-says-terry-mcauliffe-lost-virginia-with-moderated-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> of the particular election. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/02\/glenn-youngkin-terry-mcauliffe-virginia-governor-election-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Youngkin Beats McAuliffe, Clinching First Statewide Win In Virginia For Republicans Since 2009)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moderates however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/11\/03\/1051905163\/election-losses-spook-democrats-dems-blew-the-timing-on-infrastructure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blamed<\/a> progressives like Ocasio-Cortez for holding up the $1 trillion infrastructure bill until a large social spending package was passed.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/democratic-lawmakers-blame-infrastructure-bill-delay-virginia-governor-loss-n1283423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">believed<\/a> that if the infrastructure bill had been passed before the election it would have made a difference in the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if we could have been talking about that win and showing the kind of job creation that actually has been taking place, things might have been different,\u201d he said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/29\/far-left-sabotaged-democratic-party-whoopi-goldberg-the-view\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: The Far Left Sabotaged The Democratic Party By Making Demands, Says Whoopi Goldberg)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis all goes back to a lack of effective communication from the White House,\u201d Democratic strategist Colin Strother <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/democrats-blame-mcauliffe-youngkin-governor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stated<\/a>&nbsp;of the Virginia election. \u201cWe are not going to win this thing with the president in Delaware, the vice president missing in action, and our secretaries on personal leave\u2026Everything they are doing or not doing is impacting our chances in 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin made parental involvement in the education of their children one of his main points during his campaign, particularly in the final weeks. Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/11\/04\/1052101647\/education-parents-election-virginia-republicans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">polls<\/a> indicate that it had a big impact with voters.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez believes that if she and her progressive colleagues had been able to assist in generating excitement for the Virginia race, things might be different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea that we just accept a collapse in youth-turn out \u2014 and essentially turning it into a self-fulfilling prophecy \u2014 in times when races are decided by such narrow margin points: I think it\u2019s ill advised,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez expressed frustration that she and her progressive colleagues were not brought in to help secure a Democratic victory in Virginia earlier in the month.\u201cBefore &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}