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Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivered some election post-mortem analysis on Thursday after much of America swung for Donald Trump last week.
"There is universal frustration in this country—much of it I actually think [is] justified—that is raging at a political establishment that centers corporate interests, billionaires, and puts their needs ahead of the needs of working Americans,” she explained on MSNBC Thursday.
Ocasio-Cortez recently used her social media to ask her followers who backed both her and Trump why they did so. And in her post-mortem, she referred to the trends she’d seen in those responses, though she noted that all the election data is not yet available.
"There is something to be said about—it doesn't matter that [Trump’s] lying. He's saying that ‘I'm fighting for you,’” she added after being asked about the seeming incongruence of being angry at billionaires and still voting for Trump, a billionaire.
