Democrats should not actively seek to appeal to socialists who dominate the current media environment and constantly attack Democratic candidates.

“I don't think that it's I don't think it it behooves us to just say all of this is a semantic disagreement. I think it's actually really important to define what a leftist is because I think that it's important for the people to know where everybody stands.”

Socialists like AOC and Bernie Sanders should be part of the Democratic coalition because there are policies we can agree on.

“I think that there are absolutely things that we can agree on with socialists and we're a big tent enough coalition if what you mean by far left includes those people.”