The congresswoman was asked to nominate the Vermont senator under Democratic National Convention rules.
Representative Alexandrio Ocasio-Cortez's Democratic National Convention speech sparked some confusion on Tuesday night when she nominated Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for the party's presidential candidacy.
Delivering remarks in a pre-recorded speech, Ocasio-Cortez said:"In a time when millions of people in the United States are looking for deep systemic solutions to our crisis of mass evictions, unemployment, and lack of health care. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez addresses the virtual Democratic National Convention on August 18, 2020.The progressive lawmaker's formal nomination of Sanders triggered inaccurate claims that she had somehow snubbed Biden, the presumptive nominee who officially became the Democratic presidential candidate after winning more than 3,500 delegates.
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