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Ocasio-Cortez: Trump’s not ready to deal with a girl from the Bronx

They’re both from New York City — but Democratic congressional nominee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned whether President Trump is ready to “deal with a girl from the Bronx.”

Ocasio-Cortez — who became a star of the left after toppling Rep. Joe Crowley in Tuesday’s Democratic primary — hurled the zinger during an appearance on CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Thursday night.

Ocasio-Cortez, 28, was asked if she would be nicer to Trump after the president complained in a tweet that Crowley wasn’t deferential to him.

“The president is from Queens. With all due respect, half of my district is in Queens,” she said.

But, Ocasio-Cortez added, “I don’t think he knows how to deal with a girl from the Bronx.”





The Democratic nominee for the 14th Congressional District also dismissed the validity of polls in primary elections.

“Polling people try to identify who’s the most likely person to turn out. What we did is we changed who turns out,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

As an example, she said, she bumped into two teenagers in the Bronx minutes before the polls closed Tuesday night, who excitedly said they voted for her. They told her they were new 19-year-old voters, not the type who typically vote in a June primary election.

She explained why she considers herself a Democratic socialist.

“No person in American should be too poor to live,” she said. “No person should be homeless.”





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