As Bernie Sanders laid in a hospital bed in Nevada after a heart attack, with his presidential campaign in jeopardy, his campaign manager Faiz Shakir received a call from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Bernie Sanders found out he won one of the most prized endorsements in the Democratic Party on one of the worst days of his political career.
Sanders' aides and allies did not hide their excitement: Some of them burst into tears and embraced one another after news of the endorsements broke in“The man who’s really been building the movement for a long time is hospitalized with a heart attack.
Ocasio-Cortez was an organizer on Sanders’ 2016 campaign and several of her aides have come from his team. But she had been complimentary of Warren and had held off on endorsing. Sanders’ aides sensed that Ocasio-Cortez’s endorsement was within reach after she traveled to Burlington in late September to talk with Sanders and his team about her priorities, especially the Green New Deal. It’s not clear who proposed the meetup in Vermont, but Shakir scheduled an hour-plus brunch between Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders. Shakir joined them, as did Jane Sanders and an aide to the congresswoman.
“The hospitalization raised the stakes a lot, emotionally and politically,” said Alexandra Rojas, the executive director of Justice Democrats. “They are all movement people, they are all organizers at heart, and they were inspired by what he started in 2016,” she said of the members of Congress who endorsed Sanders.
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