Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Friday that a deranged Republican ad which compared the New York congresswoman’s democratic socialism to the ideology of the Khmer Rouge won’t dissuade her from continuing to work for progressive goals like Medicare for All, living wages, and climate justice.
“They don’t scare us or shake our focus. We are going to build a better world.”
—Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Ocasio-Cortez said the ad, which aired during the 2020 Democratic presidential debate Thursday night and opened with a burning photo of the New York Democrat, demonstrated the vapidity of the Republican Party’s message.
“No policy, no facts, just displays of violence and corporations like ABC and Sinclair who amplify them,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “They profit from burning my likeness on TV. But who pays for heightened security? Who answers the phones for the threats resulting from a violent, false ad?”
The commercial was paid for by Republican political action committee New Faces GOP and narrated by California Republican Elizabeth Heng, who lost her 2018 challenge to Rep. Jim Costa (D-Calif.) by 15 points.
“Does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez know the horror of socialism?” Heng says in the ad as a burning hole in a photo of Ocasio-Cortez reveals skulls from the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia. “My father was minutes from death in Cambodia, before a forced marriage saved his life. That’s socialism.”
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