Less than three weeks after publicly announcing her endorsement of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid at a massive New York City rally, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will hit the campaign trail this weekend, joining Sanders for three events across Iowa.
The stops, in Council Bluffs, Des Moines and Coralville, are Ocasio-Cortez’s first appearances outside of her home state on behalf of Sanders, I-Vt., for whom she worked as a volunteer organizer during his 2016 campaign, and are likely to be viewed as a test of her ability to draw crowds away from traditionally liberal strongholds.
The stretch continues Sanders’ streak of four straight weekends of events with members of the “Squad,” the foursome of progressive freshman congresswomen that includes Ocasio-Cortez and Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.
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aoc and bernie two peas in a pod lol