Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said she does not support a set of positions in the national Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) platform—including abolishing the Senate and eliminating the police and prison system—in an Aug. 9 interview on ABC’s “This Week.”
ABC’s Jonathan Karl read from the organization’s national program, adopted earlier this year, listing planks that included defunding the Department of War, closing overseas military bases, abolishing the police and prison system, granting amnesty to all immigrants in the country, replacing the Supreme Court, abolishing the Senate, and public ownership of corporations and essential industries. …
Ocasio-Cortez Says She Does Not Support All Planks of Democratic Socialists’ Platform
