AOC tries to broaden her appeal within a Democratic base spoiling for a fight

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : "She has become an inspiration to millions of young people," Sanders said of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, recounting her biography from a girl who helped her mother clean houses and later became a bartender before emerging as political insurgent who ousted a powerful New York Democrat in a U.S. House primary.
53% : "No matter who you voted for in the past, no matter if you know all the right words to say, no matter your race, religion, gender identity or status," Ocasio-Cortez said to thousands in a rally at Arizona State University.
47% : The decision by 10 Senate Democrats, led by party leader Schumer, to allow a Republican-led spending bill to advance infuriated the Democratic base, which saw it as capitulation to Trump.
23% : Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, whose profile is also rising after her November victory in a state Trump won, was challenged recently by a constituent to more aggressively confront Trump like Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders and Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Dallas Democrat who is becoming one of her party's key messengers.
12% : Schumer argued the spending bill was "terrible" but a government shutdown - had the measure not passed - would have given Trump the power to make even more cuts as his administration slashes agencies and hundreds of thousands of federal jobs.

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