Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) discusses former Vice President Joe Biden's performance on Super Tuesday against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), whom she has publicly endorsed with CNN's Chris Cuomo. Cortez said Biden "overperformed" because he had low expectations and that moderates coalesced behind him the night before. The Congresswoman called it an "event" and not a movement like Sanders has been building.



Cortez said Sanders could take Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin where he outperforms Biden and wins against President Trump in polling.





CHRIS CUOMO, CNN: I do not accept at this point the comparisons between Donald Trump and your candidate. I don't think it's fair because one of them is pushing a malignancy in this country that division works. And Bernie Sanders, even at his worst doesn't approach that. But you guys do play the us versus them game and it makes me wonder what you think the future is at the convention. Because either you split off and do like in Europe where you guys are the Labour Party or you have like a real other party, or the us versus them thing, how does it not come back to bite you when you come to convention time when it seems like everybody else is part of your problem?



REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-NY): Well, one thing that I would say and that I hope just for the sake of the party overall is that this does not get to a brokered convention. I think that is really important. I think that hurts the nominee, whoever the nominee is. I think it's really important that the American people and that the Democratic electorate decide --



CUOMO: Bernie agree with that or is that AOC on her own?



CORTEZ: Well, I think -- I think overall I think that the Senator has reiterated his point that he believes that the person with the most delegates --



CUOMO: He switched the position, AOC, we both know that. 2016 he was saying something different. Look, I get politics. I'm not beating up the Senator unfairly. He changed it.



CORTEZ: I can tell you, Chris, that my opinion and how I feel is that we have to unite as a party and the way that we do that is by deciding our nominee at the polls. It's extraordinarily important. Some things are bigger than a primary and defeating Donald Trump is extraordinarily important. That's why I think supporting Bernie Sanders is very important. He performs better than Biden does at the polls against Trump. He performs better in the industrial Midwest. And guess what, as we learned in 2016, you can get all the votes you want against Trump if you don't get the electoral college, we will not get the presidency back. You can get millions more votes than Donald Trump.



CUOMO: You've got to get them in the right places.



CORTEZ: We need to with Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, which are all the states Bernie Sanders wins against Trump and outperforms Biden in many of these states. This is due to trade, this is due to immigration, this is due to a lot of different issues in which the Senator has exemplified a commitment to working-class people.