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AOC Won’t Ever Be President Because “Americans Hate Women”

&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Progressive firebrand Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she can never be elected president because &&num;8220&semi;Americans hate women&period;&&num;8221&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">No&comma; not all women&comma; AOC&comma; just you&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">But this reporter&&num;8217&semi;s opinion&comma; notwithstanding &&num;8220&semi;The Squad&&num;8221&semi; leader recently said&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s unlikely she could ever be elected president of the United States — because so many people in America &&num;8220&semi;hate women&&num;8221&semi; and &&num;8220&semi;would never let that happen&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The self-described socialist speculated about the possibilities of her launching a future White House bid in a wide-ranging and fawning cover interview with GQ magazine which was published on Wednesday&comma; Sept&period; 7&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">AOC said that while she tries to hold onto the belief that anything is possible&comma; her experience in Congress has &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;given me a front-row seat to how deeply and unconsciously&comma; as well as consciously&comma; so many people in this country hate women&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">She went on&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;And they hate women of color&comma;” added the 32-year-old&comma; who was described in the article as the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;political voice of a generation” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;bona fide culture celebrity&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;People ask me questions about the future&period; And realistically&comma; I can’t even tell you if I’m going to be alive in September&period; And that weighs very heavily on me&period; And it’s not just the right wing&period; Misogyny transcends political ideology&colon; left&comma; right&comma; center&comma;” the democratic socialist continued&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I admit to sometimes believing that I live in a country that would never let that happen&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The Queens representative said she struggles when young girls tell her they want her to be president one day&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s very difficult for me to talk about because it provokes a lot of inner conflict in that I never want to tell a little girl what she can&&num;8217&semi;t do&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she said&period; &&num;8220&semi;And I don&&num;8217&semi;t want to tell young people what is not possible&period; I&&num;8217&semi;ve never been in the business of doing that&period; But at the same time…&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">In addition to being a woman&comma; the legislator claimed that her opposition to Wall Street could also hinder any potential bid for the presidency&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Could &lbrack;former President Barack&rsqb; Obama have gotten elected without the kind of financial support that he had&quest;” she said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I don’t know&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">AOC&comma; who often finds herself at odds with her own party&comma; also lamented how&comma; even if she were to be elected commander-in-chief&comma; she’d face the wrath of the political system — from the Senate to the Supreme Court — that she says would impede her goals&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There are still plenty of limitations&comma;” she claimed&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s tough&comma; it’s really tough&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Elsewhere in the interview&comma; the congresswoman spoke of the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;open hostility” she encountered from her own Democratic Party colleagues after taking office in 2018&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It was open hostility&comma; open hostility to my presence&comma; my existence&comma;” Ocasio-Cortez said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Since I got here&comma; literally day one&comma; even before day one&comma; I’ve experienced a lot of targeting diminishment from my party&period; And the pervasiveness of that diminishment&comma; it was all-encompassing at times&period; I feel a little more steady on my own two feet now&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">She concluded the sentiment by saying&comma;&nbsp&semi; &&num;8220&semi;But would I say that I have the power to shift the elected federal Democratic Party&quest; No&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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