she s gaining national traction in the advance of midterms while the leader of their party is interested in putting a foreign adversary in front of the american people. mike: ocasio cortez moving incumbent democrats too far to the left? i would like to encourage the democratic party to make her the face of the party and adopt all her positions. if that does occur, then lieberman is right. the democrats may never win another election. in fact i have got to imagine the democrats running in the trump red states, democrats running in montana, missouri, where she is, mccaskill has to be cringing every time she gets coverage up there. heitkamp in north dakota. these positions don t play well. one thing when you have ocasio who is making comments with this far left wing ideas but when the democratic party starts to adopt a form of economic standard that is completely contrary to our american values it shows the party has gotten off the rails and the inmates are now running the asylum. mike:
ocasio cortez has taken the party too far to the left. take a listen to this. if the victory of ms. ocasio cortez in bronx and queens is taken as a direction of which the democratic party should go nationally, democratic party s not going to elect the president in 2020. mike: is that a legitimate concern for your side, tiffany? i don t think is. first of all, i think the fact that joe lieberman emerged from political irrelevance to even raise the issue. most people who follow cortez are under the age of 30 and will have to google who lieberman is. i think what she s pushing are things that are not inconsistent with the democratic party. she s pushing for things like $15 minimum wage, medicare for all i think she s very consistent with where democrats stand and i don t think that s a discord. just this week the democrats launched the medicare for all caucus in congress. i think the real question is how concerned are republicans that
sandra: the democratic party getting a shot of youthful energy from socialists like alexandria ocasio-cortez in new york but could their rise be good news for republicans in the mid-terms? are the young progressives pulling the dems too far to the left with calls to impeach president trump, abolish ice, peter doocy is in washington with more on this. good morning, peter. in 2016 senator bernie sanders won more than 13 million primary votes with a platform of democratic socialism. this year the only democratic member of congress to lose a primary lost to a democratic socialist. however, a one-time democratic running mate sees a ceiling. if the victory of ms. ocasio-cortez in bronx and queens is taken as the direction which the democratic party should go nationally the