AOC Blames Her Growing Unfavorability on ‘Concerted Far-Right Propaganda Machine’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) responded to her growing nation-wide unfavorability on the “directed + concerted far-right propaganda machine” and a “dark-money internet operation propped up by the Mercers” on Thursday.
A recently released Quinnipiac poll showed she is at a “negative 23 – 36 percent favorability rating, with 38 percent who haven’t heard enough about her to form an opinion.”
“All is definitely not A-OK for AOC. Most voters either don’t like the firebrand freshman Congresswoman or don’t know who she is,” Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said.
Ocasio-Cortez hinted the Fox News Channel and conservative outlets are “dedicated to maligning me & stoking nat’l division”:
It’s almost as though there is a directed + concerted far-right propaganda machine with a whole cable news channel, and a dark-money internet operation propped up by the Mercers et al dedicated to maligning me & stoking nat’l division, reported on by @JaneMayerNYer or something https://t.co/HChBp04c8W
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 29, 2019
She also acknowledged “many centrist Democrats and ostensibly Democrat-leaning media outlets are also working to undercut” her as much as they can, saying “someone’s got to care about growing” the Democratic base:
Word. But someone’s got to care about growing the Dem base: the thing ppl don’t realize is that the House is where you can build turnout infrastructure to win Presidentials. When we don’t invest in blue-seat organizing in the House, we don’t get the turnout we need every 4 years.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 29, 2019
Indeed Ocasio-Cortez does get a lot of coverage of her proposed policies, like the Green New Deal, and her speeches. Vox said it’s because conservatives both hate and fear her:
It turns out she got more coverage on Fox than any candidate save one, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who is also a right-wing boogeyman. Ocasio-Cortez got significantly more Fox News coverage than fellow democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders.
It’s astonishing that a Democratic backbencher could get this much attention and get so famous at the beginning of her first term. It’s a testament to how much of a phenomenon she is on the Democratic left — and how much the right seems to both hate and fear her.
The Congresswoman’s had also called out other polls showing her unfavorability is growing.
The reason people know more is bc Fox News has turned into “AOC TMZ” (no offense to TMZ), so awareness is growing w/ GOPers.@JaneMayerNYer has reported deeply on this propaganda machine + it will be aimed at any Dem they want. Nothing changes that.
We can’t be scared by that.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 16, 2019
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