Tina Forte challenges Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's hold on New York's 14th District, arguing her "congresswoman from wish" status and alleged socialism alienate local legal immigrants. Forte cites AOC's past letter calling police racist, refusal to address crime, and sanctuary policies housing illegal immigrants at Randall Island as proof of disconnection. Highlighting her independent grassroots victory against GOP hesitation, she contrasts her small business background with AOC's elite lifestyle, asserting that restoring American values and term limits is essential to reclaim the district from perceived communist influence. [Automatically generated summary]
Everything dragged me to this, but more so AOC because she is representing my district.
I am not a politician.
I'm a mother, grandmother, small business owner.
And after COVID, I just had enough.
I started ranting in my car.
Started building momentum and a following, and I just was speaking for people, and I was going to rallies and protests.
I stood with business owners during the lockdowns.
I spoke up for our children in school with the mandates.
I spoke up for our city workers.
I backed the blue.
I was down in the city with the law and order, the big, beautiful flags I would walk in the streets with, and I just became very vocal, and I'm fighting for the people, and I want my voice to be for the people.
As I said to you right before we started, we could use some more Italian mamas in Congress.
I think that really could fix this whole thing up.
What can you tell me about the 14th district, where obviously you're from and business, as you said, and grandma there and all that stuff?
Because I think people don't really have any understanding of the district other than somehow AOC magically appeared in this place, and now she's on the front page of everything all the time.
When you saw her come down to my state during COVID as she had you guys locked down and masked up and she was for, you know, forcing people to get vaccinated and everything else.
Yes.
And then she was drinking, I think margaritas down on South Beach.
I'm guessing that didn't go over too well in the Bronx.
Do you think that people, not only because they're seeing the crime and then all the COVID stuff and all that, like the stuff that's obviously on the ground there, but also that she has just tried to be a political star this whole time, where you never hear her talking about her district, actually, ever.
I mean, she's on every show every weekend, you know, treated with kid gloves.
Does it strike you as a very odd thing that the progressives, that they're for all of this crazy gender stuff and all of the race stuff and all of these things that if you go to the Bronx, I honestly cannot, I've been to the Bronx a million times in my life, like wandering down the street, nobody would be for this stuff.
You mentioned the policing before and obviously AOC's hypocrisy where she's wandering around with armed guards while she's calling to defund the police and all that kind of stuff.
How, in the couple of years that she's been in Congress, how has the security situation or the safety situation, I should say, how has that changed in the Bronx?
She's worse than the establishment and she really is.
You know, one of the things that I've been saying about her for a while is she doesn't realize it, but she's actually the past of politics.
She thinks she's the future of politics, but I actually think all of her divisiveness, obviously I don't like the ideas, but even just the divisiveness and the using groups against each other, that's not what the future of this country is.
She doesn't know what it's like to have... I'm a grandma, too.
She doesn't know what it's like to send a kid to school with a mask on and have all these mandates and to have, you know, real issues, to worry about money.
She's not like that now.
She goes to the Met Gala's.
She drives her Tesla.
She has security around her.
She's living the life of an elite.
And she left her district behind, the district she promised to fight for.
I'm guessing probably because of some of those videos of the protesters at her things, she's probably not spending a lot of time at the home district at this point, right?
I noticed on your Twitter bio, you say America first.
I'm curious, what does that mean to you?
Because this is becoming sort of the new trend and you can feel a little tension now with the Republicans.
Are we America first or are we, you know, sort of Old school Republicans, whatever.
That means then you have all the disaffected liberals who are kind of coming over now, you know, who are waking up and going, okay, something's not right.
We need America first patriots who put America first.
Americans should come first.
Look, in the district, we just had a problem with the, they sent the illegal immigrants to Orchard Beach in my district.
I'm not going to lie.
I went to Orchard Beach on October 1st and I protested.
Because of AOC's policies, the open border policies that she pushes for, the sanctuary cities, they decided to send the illegal immigrants and house them in Orchard Beach.
Give them security.
Give them food.
Give them heated tents.
We have homeless, we have homeless veterans in our district.
So I went to Orchard Beach and I said, no, not in my backyard and not in any backyard this should be.
Send them back.
Send them back and let them wait in line.
So I declared October.
Adopt an illegal immigrant month in Orchard Beach.
Come on down, 81 million strong, take an illegal immigrant home with you, feed them, clothe them, give them shelter, but get them the hell out of the district.
So when they show up, you said they're getting food, they're getting security, they're getting housing, and then I suspect, well, for a while the Democrats in New York were pushing to have illegals vote.
So I don't even know where that stands at this point, but you could kind of see what's going on here.
That was shot down by the courts, and the illegal immigrants are now out of Orchard Beach.
They did move them to Randall Island, so we have to protest there.
Even though they're not in my district, I still have to fight for it because it's something I believe in, believe strongly about, that they shouldn't be here at all.
Tina, you remind me of every single one of my friends' moms growing up in Long Island.
I wish you a lot of luck, and I really think there's a chance, and as I keep saying, we just gotta get to a point where in America we can look in that back mirror and say, AOC, a later, enough of her.
So if people wanna support, they wanna help you out, where can they go?