AOC paints Left and Walz as ‘normal’ compared to ‘weird’ Trump-Vance ticket

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) marketed progressive Democrats and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) as “normal,” in contrast to the “creepy” ticket of former President Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH).

In an Instagram livestream, Ocasio-Cortez reaffirmed her support for Walz, portraying Vice President Kamala Harris’s selection of him as a uniting moment. She contrasted the Harris-Walz ticket with that of Trump-Vance, which she portrayed as “weird” and “creepy.”

“And I think the two of them together really show what America is actually about and what our values actually are, and Trump and J.D. Vance are, like, the creepiest people you’ve ever met in your life,” she said. “Like, truly, I think, like, I mean, where do we even start with J.D. Vance? Like, he’s weirdly obsessed with women’s bodies and reproductive systems.”

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In a line consistent with that of most Democrats but a departure from her standard progressive iconoclastic approach, the New York Democrat pitched the 2024 presidential ticket as a return to normalcy.

“They are creepily obsessed with LGBT people, like, nobody. I don’t think normal people are this concerned with what’s going on in other people’s situations, you know, like, kind of, keep your hands to yourself, right? They don’t know how to do that. And we’re here to kind of make things normal,” Ocasio-Cortez said of Trump and Vance.

Ocasio-Cortez was, however, quick to clarify that it was only a certain kind of normalcy, stressing the need for continuing “progress.”

“But not just normal. Actually to try to commit to a policy agenda that … ensures that we make progress, and I think that we really want to try to make that part of our conversation,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

She portrayed her kind of politics as a true normalcy, arguing that the establishment Democrats were an aberration from the historic Democratic Party.

“Anyways, what I was going to say is that I am looking forward to a Democratic Party that is moving past the kind of 90s era, triangulation politics, and moving and getting back to our roots of being FDR Democrats, of being populist, working-class labor Democrats, with the added integration of a modern intersectional lens,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “That is aware of racial rights, that is aware of women’s rights, that’s aware of and fights for civil and LGBT rights and integrates the material identity values, not just superficial.”