NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she’d love to be Sen. Bernie Sanders’ running mate if he wins the Democratic presidential nomination.
“It’d be an honor to be vice president,” she said in an interview with Telemundo, according to the Washington Examiner.
But she also says that at 30, she’s five years too young to take up the role. The Constitution requires a VP to be 35 years old, just as with the presidency.
“Well, I can't be his running mate, because I'm not old enough. I'm 30, and you have to be at least 35. But it'd be an honor to be vice president,” she said.
AOC has been stumping for Sanders on the campaign trail in recent months. In the interview, she said Sanders understands that his campaign isn’t about one person but a “movement.”
She also dispelled Republicans’ claims that her ideas are socialist.
“We're not advocating total control of the economy. We're talking about humane economic rights,” she said.” We're talking about education, healthcare and fair wages. Here in the U.S. those values are called socialist values, but to me, that says a lot about where we are in the U.S.”
She also slammed President Trump, whose campaign has called her “Crazy AOC.”
“I think that if the president is calling me crazy, that's good,” she said. “He's a racist, and he's anti-immigrants, but more than that, his administration is very corrupt.”
“I think he's afraid of women, of strong women, of Latina women,” she said.