Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explains democratic socialism on the "Late Show"

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old woman who defeated powerful Democrat MP Joe Crowley in one of the most shocking upheavals of the 2018 primaries, appeared Thursday at the "Late Show" with Stephen Colbert. She spoke to Colbert about her reaction after winning as a candidate for the first time in the 14th Congressional District of New York and about her support for democratic socialism.

She described the moment when she learned of her victory on her election watch night.

"It was an old billiard room in the Bronx," Ocasio-Cortez said. "I had not checked any of the polls on my phone, and we are going out, and I'm leaving," Oh my god's out because I see all these reporters running at the watch party .. I literally run these reporters into the billiard room, and I run inside, and I just run to this TV and I look up and I see the margin, and then I see the number of reports It's like that I found out that we won the elections "

Colbert asked him more about his platform and democratic socialism.

" I believe that in a modern, moral and rich society, no one in America should be too poor to live, "she explained." What this means to me is that health care is a right of the person, it means that every child, no matter where they are born, should have access to a college or trade school if they if we have public structures or public policies that allow people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States.

Asked about President Trump's merry reaction to Crowley Hastings' defeat "which should have been" nicer "with his president, Ocasio-Cortez said Trump should not count on his support." The president comes from Queens, "said Ocasio-Cortez." And with all due respect – half of my district comes from Queens – I do not think he knows how to deal with a Bronx girl. . "

In his victory speech, Ocasio-Cortez, a native of the Bronx" We meet a machine with a movement, and that's what we did today: the Americans of the class worker want a clear champion and there is nothing radical in terms of moral clarity in 2018. "