Ocasio-Cortez appears to be recreating Obama’s multi-racial voter coalition

The roar came as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) spoke from the pulpit to Black voters in Atlanta. Turnout is key to this year’s midterm fight for control of Congress, and Ocasio-Cortez is ringing the bell for people to rush the polls.

Here is Ocasio-Cortez: “What happens to Georgia, happens to New York. What happens to Tennessee, happens to California. What happens to Louisiana, happens to all of us, Ebenezer, because this is America. We are not divided by state. We are united by our humanity and common citizenship.”

Speaking against Republican redistricting efforts that are diminishing Black political presence in Congress she got people to their feet by saying: “We are not going back!”

This was a Latina from New York, in the South, in Martin Luther King’s former church, stirring up Black Democrats.

Ocasio-Cortez’s schedule over the last few weeks also included a voting rights rally for Black voters in Alabama and the Power Rising Summit, a Chicago meeting for “Black women to turn power into action and create an actionable agenda.”

Successful redistricting efforts this year by Republicans in the South are directed at shushing Black political voices, key to the Democratic chorus in congressional elections.

The only answer for the Democrats is to get Black voters to start singing about turning out in newly drawn districts. Voting in big numbers is the Democrats’ strategy for making an impact despite the redistricting.

Ocasio-Cortez is reaching out to Black voters after drawing big crowds last year with democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on their “Fighting Oligarchy Tour.” 

At 84 years old, Sanders is not running for president. But his high energy movement of........

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