Ocasio-Cortez: 'I'm listening' to split-ticket Trump voters
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has taken to Instagram to listen to split-ticket voters from last week’s election, posting a question box asking “People who supported [President-elect] Trump & me OR voted Trump/Dem, tell us why” on her story.
She received a variety of responses from her 8.1 million followers and beyond, citing reasons ranging from Trump and Ocasio-Cortez's "care for the working class" to the war in Gaza.
“I’m LISTENING,” she wrote. “Sometimes you gotta dig in and see it to understand and adapt! Even if it makes you want to barf.”
“I support you and did this. Felt like I didn’t have a choice after Biden’s administration,” one reply said.
"You are focused on the real issues people care about. Similar to Trump populism in some ways,” another said.
“This is why I say that we should be signing up to knock on doors and be on the phones,” Ocasio-Cortez said in another story in response to a comment that said responses were “blowing [their] mind. “If you’re only tuning in to [mass media], you will think that most people fall along this spectrum, and a lot of people don’t.”
She added that door knocking and phone banking are not a “junior thing” that politicians should grow out of. She also posted stories also asking about where leftists and Trump-supporting voters get their news from and shared some of those responses as well.
Ocasio-Cortez glided to victory in her reelection race in New York last week, and will continue to represent the state's 14th Congressional District.
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