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Joe Lieberman '64 on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Ocasio-Cortez, a self-described Democratic socialist, became the youngest women ever elected to Congress. She recently proposed a 70% income-tax rate on the nation's highest earners to fund a new green-energy plan.

However, in Joe Lieberman’s opinion, she’s gotten a lot of attention because she's “different” and “controversial.”

“If you look at the majority of new Democrats in the house, they tend to be, I'd say, center-left, and not left-left,” he said. “And that's 'cause they had to be center-left to win some of those competitive swing districts that they took from Republicans. So that’s the hope.”