Originally Posted by Crow hunter
Saikat Chakrabarti created AOC, she’s a puppet that he recruited because his group Justice Democrats had identified her district as one where they could install a radical leftist mouthpiece. She didn’t just wake up one morning and decide to quit bartending and run for Congress, she was recruited by Chakrabarti and tutored for her campaign. She really is as dumb as she seems and without smart handlers feeding her talking points she’ll have a hard go of it. She was picked because she’s Hispanic, sorta cute, and likes to talk. She surely wasn’t picked for her brain. If Chakrabarti has abandoned her she’s going to have a tough time of it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Democrats

Yes, but if memory serves, she won with a whopping 11% of her district vote. She may have been recruited, but no one took here seriously, and an apathetic, lazy voting class put her in by sheer osmosis.