In the accompanying story by Time’s national correspondent Charlotte Alter, Ocasio-Cortez talks about her growing celebrity, saying she “can’t go anywhere in public and just be a person without a lot of people watching everything I do.”
As Alter put it, “Ocasio-Cortez has become the second most talked-about politician in America, after the President of the United States.”
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The 29-year-old Ocasio-Cortez, who was elected last year following an upset in the Democratic primary over longtime New York congressman Joe Crowley, also described what she believes is causing the divide within her party.
“There’s always this talk about division within the Democratic Party, ideological differences,” she told Time. “But I actually think they’re generational differences. Because the America we grew up in is nothing like the America our parents or our grandparents grew up in.”
Source: Ocasio-Cortez, ‘second most talked-about politician in America,’ graces Time cover
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