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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez ‘Grifted’ $5.3 Million in 2019 for Race in Non-Competitive District

Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, and grifters gotta grift.

And Sandy from Westchester, who invented a poor background, is the embodiment of politically correct grifting. She’s running for reelection in a Latino/Hipster district where no Democrat with a pulse is likely to lose to a Republican. But she’s still collecting millions she doesn’t need.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raised nearly $2 million over the final three months of last year, according to the star House freshman’s campaign.

Ocasio-Cortez’s sizable cash haul — $1.97 million in the fourth quarter of 2019 and over $5.3 million for the entire year — is one of the largest revealed so far among members of Congress, and the size of her fundraising base will likely stoke speculation about the New Yorker’s ambitions.

Read the full story from Front Page Mag


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