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MATTHEWS: "Congresswoman, thank you. Con congratulations, by the way. We've never met but congratulations by your upset victory in the primary. The president made an aggressive statement about Venezuela tonight, and he talked about being a socialist country and how we'll never be a socialist it tied the notion of socialism to that particular regime. What do you think about the president, why he did that?"
OCASIO-CORTEZ: "I think that he needs to do it because he feels like -- he feels himself losing on the issues. Every single policy proposal that we have adopted and presented to the American public has been overwhelmingly popular, even some with a majority of Republican voters supporting what we're talking about. We talked about a 70% marginal tax rate on incomes over $10 million. 60% of Americans approve it. 70 million Americans believe in approved and expanded Medicare for all. A large amount of Americans believe we need to do something about climate change, that it's an existential threat to ourselves and our children. I think he sees himself losing on the issues, he sees himself losing on the wall in the southern border, and he needs to grasp at an attack and this is his way of doing it. But what we need to realize is happening is this is an issue of authoritarian regime versus democracy. In order for him to try to dissuade or throw people off the scent of the trail, he has to really make and confuse the public. And I think that that's exactly what he's trying to do.”