'We Will Replace Them': Audience Erupts Into Standing Cheers As AOC Discusses Flipping Utah Blue

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At a "Fight Oligarchy Tour' event in Salt Lake City, Utah on Sunday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spoke about replacing Republican politicians in Utah with Democrats.

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00:00But I want us to understand that this constant pressure that we feel in our

00:06lives of the water rising up to our throats, the impossibility to afford

00:12anything easily, the fear of speaking up or being who we are in public, the bitter

00:19divisions driven more by online algorithms than the truth, the crumbling

00:24of our rights and protections. Understand that this, right now, is what it feels

00:30like to be governed by billionaires.

00:36This is what oligarchy feels like, not someday, right now. The first step is for

00:44us to open our eyes, because of course it is a system that depends on division to

00:51enable inequality that will result in a president who is best at dividing us and

00:57most skilled at corruption. And it will also reward the Republicans in Congress who

01:03support that agenda, no matter what crimes are committed. Big money is how we got

01:10Donald Trump. His whole presidency began with launching tools for bribery, meme coins,

01:18and crypto currencies to fleece normal people and move money in the dark. Extortion

01:24settlements from media companies and law firms who gladly pay the price. Removing

01:31duly elected officials from the inauguration, even Republican ones, to make room for

01:37the unelected billionaires who sat right behind him. They have one central economic

01:46mission, to make billionaires richer at the expense of the United States of America. And

01:52it does not surprise us that their first economic mission has been to target Medicaid, Medicare,

02:00Social Security, firing our federal workers, and cutting benefits from our veterans for hundreds

02:07of billions of dollars so that they can hand that money off to the wealthiest.

02:11And Utah, I know that it can look or feel impossible sometimes out here for the Republicans to be defeated,

02:23but that is not true. It is simply not true. From the waitress who is now speaking to you today, I can

02:35tell you impossible is nothing. Miracles start with the faith of mustard seeds, and that is what each and

02:47every one of you represent today. Small miracles of faith in ourselves, in each other, and in the refusal to give up.

02:56Because we are here for the long haul, Utah. We are here for the school boards and the community associations,

03:06for the small business groups and town councils, for public art and gestures of inclusion, and we will build

03:14from there until we flip the seats in Congress, until we take back the Senate, right here in this very state.

03:25So you know what that means. We start working now. We start working small. And we will defeat Celeste Malloy and Blake Moore and give them the boot.