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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has warned that electing former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg as president would set the stage for a candidate even worse than Donald Trump. AOC is fully against nominating Bloomberg as a candidate for the 2020 election. She was speaking on The Breakfast Club on radio station Power 105.1 a.m., she said, “We obviously have to beat Trump. But if we beat Trump and go back to the same policies that we had before, a worse Trump is going to come. A Trump that’s more sophisticated, whose fascism is less obvious, is going to come and things could get even worse”. AOC has shown her support for Senator Bernie Sanders.

Ocasio-Cortez said Bloomberg’s record shows the kind of president he would be. She pointed out his controversial stop and frisk policy, and his remarks about how the ending of redlining contributed to the global financial crisis in 2008. She said, “A lot of people don’t know Bloomberg. We’re here in New York City. We lived under his tenure as mayor. We know exactly what he did. This is part of what he’s doing when he comes in, swoops in super late in the game with billions of dollars at his disposal and is able to kind of shower the airwaves with his cash”.

She added, “I think that redemption in politics is an acceptable thing, but you have to earn it. It needs to be proven through years of work and evolution for the right thing. This is what happened with Bloomberg. He was down with stop and frisk. He fought for it in the courts and courts overturned it as unconstitutional. He still fought it, defended it after him being mayor and then 5 minutes before he runs for president. He said, “OK, maybe this wasn’t the right policy”. Bloomberg has bombarded media markets across the country with a $400m advertising blitz since entering the race in November 2019.