Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says She's Fighting President Trump's "Illusion of Power"
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🗓️ 1 March 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez challenged the Justice Department to say if she's under investigation. |
| 0:08.3 | It's important to call this administration's bluff. |
| 0:10.7 | They rely on the illusion of power. |
| 0:13.8 | The Democrat wants to find her parties way back into power. |
| 0:16.5 | It's a special episode of Up First from NPR News. |
| 0:24.2 | I'm Steve Inskeep. Ocasio Cortes wants to win back working class voters who supported President Trump in 2024, which leads to a question. |
| 0:30.2 | To what extent is immigration as an issue part of your problem with working class voters? |
| 0:36.1 | I guess my question would be, what does the word problem mean? |
| 0:40.6 | Also, did Trump get ahead of Democrats on working class economic issues? |
| 0:44.4 | And have Democrats lost ground because they're bad at governing? |
| 0:48.4 | Stay with us. |
| 0:49.4 | We'll put those questions and more to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. |
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| 1:17.5 | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is one of the Democratic Party's biggest stars. When she was first elected |
| 1:23.6 | in 2018, she was very much an outsider, a social media phenomenon, often a critic of her |
| 1:30.0 | party's programs and leaders. Now she's seen as more of an insider, a somewhat more senior |
| 1:35.4 | figure, still a big star. And so we brought her here to Studio One to ask what she thinks her |
| 1:41.1 | party can do with its current dilemma. Democrats are out of power in Washington. |
| 1:46.0 | They're watching President Trump enact his agenda, |
| 1:48.8 | and they know the president has great appeal |
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