{"id":11528,"date":"2020-08-19T05:23:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T03:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=11528"},"modified":"2020-08-19T15:29:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T13:29:44","slug":"alexandria-ocasio-cortez-nominates-bernie-sanders-at-democratic-national-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=11528","title":{"rendered":"Between the idea and the reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/story\/2020-08-18\/democratic-convention-alexandria-ocasio-cortez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/story\/2020-08-18\/democratic-convention-alexandria-ocasio-cortez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11529\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-nominates-Bernie-Sanders-at-Democratic-National-Convention.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"755\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-nominates-Bernie-Sanders-at-Democratic-National-Convention.jpeg 755w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-nominates-Bernie-Sanders-at-Democratic-National-Convention-300x170.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez nominated Bernie Sanders on Tuesday in a convention speech that honored him for organizing \u201ca historic grassroots campaign to reclaim our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New York congresswoman, 30, seconded the nomination for Sanders as the Democratic Party\u2019s presidential nominee, hailing the 78-year-old Vermont senator and his \u201cmass people\u2019s movement working to establish 21st century social, economic and human rights, including guaranteed health&shy;care, higher education, living wages, and labor rights for all people in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nominating Sanders is a formality after he\u00a0dropped out of the contest\u00a0in April. Former Vice President Joe Biden won the required number of delegate in June, cementing his status as the presumptive nominee, but he\u00a0<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2020-04-30\/biden-reaches-deal-to-let-sanders-keep-hundreds-of-delegates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allowed Sanders to keep his delegates<\/a>\u00a0at the convention as an olive branch to the senator\u2019s supporters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11528-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/AOC-nominating-Sanders-at-Democratic-Convention-18.08.2020.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/AOC-nominating-Sanders-at-Democratic-Convention-18.08.2020.ogg\">https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/AOC-nominating-Sanders-at-Democratic-Convention-18.08.2020.ogg<\/a><\/audio>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11528-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/T.S.-Eliot-Recites-The-Hollow-Men.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/T.S.-Eliot-Recites-The-Hollow-Men.mp3\">https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/T.S.-Eliot-Recites-The-Hollow-Men.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Times: U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez nominated Bernie Sanders on Tuesday in a convention speech that honored him for organizing \u201ca historic grassroots campaign to reclaim our democracy.\u201d The New York congresswoman, 30, seconded the nomination for Sanders as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=11528\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}