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    Ocasio-Cortez Decries Biden 'Middle-Of-The-Road Approach' On Climate Change

    "I will be damned if the same politicians who refused to act then are going to try to come back today and say we need to find a middle-of-the-road approach to save our lives," the N.Y. Democrat said.
    by Jessica Taylor May 14, 2019 2 minutes
    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks during a rally at Howard University on Monday. The Sunrise Movement held an event for the final stop of the "Road to a Green New Deal" tour to "explore what the pain of the climate crisis looks like in D.C. and for the country and what the promise of the Green New Deal means."

    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasted "middle-of-the-road" approaches on climate change, an apparent criticism of former Vice President Joe Biden.

    "I will be damned if the same politicians who refused to act then are going to try to come back today and say we need to find a middle-of-the-road approach to save our lives," the 29-year-old freshman Democrat, who , said Monday night at an event in Washington,

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