{"id":985777,"date":"2021-11-08T16:29:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T21:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=985777"},"modified":"2021-11-08T16:29:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T21:29:57","slug":"rep-ocasio-cortez-takes-aim-at-democrat-strategist-for-blaming-loss-in-va-gubernatorial-race-on-wokeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-ocasio-cortez-takes-aim-at-democrat-strategist-for-blaming-loss-in-va-gubernatorial-race-on-wokeness\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Ocasio-Cortez takes aim at Democrat strategist for blaming loss in Va. gubernatorial race on \u2018wokeness\u2019"},"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\">32<\/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%2Frep-ocasio-cortez-takes-aim-at-democrat-strategist-for-blaming-loss-in-va-gubernatorial-race-on-wokeness%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=985777&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 id=\"attachment_2574316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2574316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 OCTOBER 26: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks during a news conference to discuss legislation that would strengthen Social Security benefits, on Capitol Hill October 26, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 12:27 PM PT \u2013 Monday, November 8, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Far-left lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) slammed a Democrat political strategist for blaming the party\u2019s losses in Virginia on progressive \u201cwokeness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez ripped into former Bill Clinton campaign strategist James Carville in a tweet on Friday, accusing him of causing division in the Democrat Party through his comments. She asserted Carville and other \u201cold people\u201d use the term \u201cwoke\u201d to denigrate voters under the age of 45.<\/p>\n<p>Her comments come after Carville blamed Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe\u2019s loss to Glenn Youngkin on \u201cstupid wokeness.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWoke\u201d is a term pundits are now using as a derogatory euphemism for civil rights &amp; justice.<\/p>\n<p>Making up a \u201cwoke\u201d problem results in putting civil &amp; voting rights on the backburner. In a year state legislatures are planning out GOP majorities &amp; voter suppression, that\u2019s dangerous<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1457517036993716224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWell, what went wrong is this stupid wokeness. Alright? Don\u2019t just look at Virginia and New Jersey. Look at Long Island, look at Buffalo, look at Minneapolis. Even look at Seattle, Washington,\u201d said AOC. \u201cI mean, this defund the police lunacy, this take Abraham Lincoln\u2019s name off of schools, that\u2026people see that. And it\u2019s just really has a suppressive effect all across the country to Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carville\u2019s comments appeared as others in the party have also questioned the appeal of progressive policy goals.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/nationwide-strike-against-bidens-vaccine-mandate-begins\/\">Nationwide Strike Against Biden\u2019s Vaccine Mandate Begins<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 OCTOBER 26: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks during a news conference to discuss legislation that would strengthen Social Security benefits, on Capitol Hill October 26, 2021 in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"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-985777","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\/985777","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\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985777\/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=985777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}