AOC uses bar­tend­ing roots to ral­ly Democ­rats at DNC open­ing and jab at Trump

CHICAGO — Rep. Alexan­dria Oca­sio-Cortez (D‑NY) sought to appeal to the mid­dle class dur­ing her speech on the open­ing night of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Con­ven­tion on Mon­day evening. The “Squad” Demo­c­rat high­light­ed her back­ground as a bar­tender in New York City in her remarks, say­ing that “like mil­lions of Amer­i­cans,” her fam­i­ly was “just look­ing for an hon­est shake, and we were tired of a cyn­i­cal pol­i­tics that seemed blind to the real­i­ties of work­ing people.”“Ever since I got elect­ed, Repub­li­cans have attacked me by say­ing that I should go back to bar­tend­ing,” she said. “But let me tell you, I am hap­py to, any day of the week because there is noth­ing wrong with work­ing for a living.”Ocasio-Cortez, greet­ed by chants of “AOC,” argued that Amer­i­ca has a “rare and p …