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On the recordFebruary 1, 2021
I just felt like I`m not going there. Like, there were members who were live tweeting the location of the speaker that were probably going to be in that extraction point.
Said by
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York
Source
msnbc.com

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explains her fear of being directed to a potentially unsafe extraction point during the Capitol invasion.

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