{"id":400293,"date":"2019-03-19T12:50:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T11:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/students-say-ocasio-cortez-is-face-of-democrat-party-not-pelosi\/"},"modified":"2019-03-19T12:50:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T11:50:47","slug":"students-say-ocasio-cortez-is-face-of-democrat-party-not-pelosi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/students-say-ocasio-cortez-is-face-of-democrat-party-not-pelosi\/","title":{"rendered":"Students say Ocasio-Cortez is face of Democrat party, not Pelosi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=11990\"><strong>Campus Reform<\/strong><\/a><br \/>March 19, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>With the 2020 presidential election just 18 months away, the Democrat party is undergoing an internal struggle for power between the old guard, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the newer, more radical element led by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. While Pelosi clearly wields more congressional power, Ocasio-Cortez has shown an almost unrivaled ability to single-handedly drive the national conversation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Often focusing on policies like the Green New Deal and universal basic income, Ocasio-Cortez has quickly become the most talked about member of the Democrat party.<\/p>\n<p>But do people view her as the new face of the party?<\/p>\n<p>Wanting to know what college students had to say,<em>\u00a0Campus Reform<\/em>\u2018s Cabot Phillips headed to Georgetown University to ask a simple question: \u201cBetween Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who do you view as the face of the Democrat party?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The results were overwhelmingly in Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s got the people. We\u2019re in a time of extremes, she\u2019s pulling pretty far to the left, and I think people are going to like it,\u201d one student said, while another added, \u201cshe represents a new progressive thing that\u2019s pretty prevalent on college campuses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Multiple students raised the generational aspect, saying, \u201cas the millennial base participates more in politics\u2026 there\u2019s gonna be a lot more people that steer in a Democratic Socialist direction,\u201d and \u201cI see the Democrat party moving towards a more liberal, progressive, younger generation.\u201d<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>What did other students have to say? Did anyone choose Speaker Pelosi? Watch the full video to find out:<\/p>\n<p><center><span class=\"fr-video fr-fvc fr-dvi fr-draggable\" contenteditable=\"false\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ta8ksy81P7Q\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/center><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Tuesday, March 19, 2019  at  6:22 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/video-students-say-ocasio-cortez-is-face-of-democrat-party-not-pelosi.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n...\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/video-students-say-ocasio-cortez-is-face-of-democrat-party-not-pelosi.html\">Read more<\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus ReformMarch 19, 2019 With the 2020 presidential election just 18 months away, the Democrat party is undergoing an internal struggle for power between the old guard, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the newer, more radical element led by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. While Pelosi clearly wields more congressional power, Ocasio-Cortez has shown an almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}