Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAlexandria Ocasio-CortezAttorney says 75-year-old man shoved by Buffalo police suffered brain injury How language is bringing down Donald Trump Highest-circulation Kentucky newspaper endorses Charles Booker in Senate race MORE (D-N.Y.) on Thursday attributed some of Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill’s 12:30 Report: Milley apologizes for church photo-op Harris grapples with defund the police movement amid veep talk Biden courts younger voters \u2014 who have been a weakness MORE’s (I-Vt.) struggles in Michigan’s Democratic primary election on Tuesday to \u201crampant voter suppression.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I think one thing that … that isn\u2019t being talked about is the rampant voter suppression in this country,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez told Fox News’s\u00a0Bret Baier, citing long lines that young voters in college towns such as Ann Arbor had to face.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cRight there, in Ann Arbor, where we had that rally, those kids were waiting three hours in line to vote in Michigan,” she explained.<\/p>\n
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Sanders, who scored an upset win in Michigan against former Secretary of State Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhite House\u00a0accuses Biden of pushing ‘conspiracy theories’ with Trump election claim Biden courts younger voters \u2014 who have been a weakness Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton qualifies to run for county commissioner in Florida MORE in 2016,\u00a0was routed in the Wolverine State this time around by former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenHillicon Valley: Biden calls on Facebook to change political speech rules | Dems demand hearings after Georgia election chaos | Microsoft stops selling facial recognition tech to police Trump finalizing executive order calling on police to use ‘force with compassion’ The Hill’s Campaign Report: Biden campaign goes on offensive against Facebook MORE. The former vice president won by 17 percentage points over the Vermont senator.<\/p>\n
The only state that Sanders won Tuesday was North Dakota, which is tied for the least amount of delegates (14) in the continental U.S.<\/p>\n
Ocasio-Cortez admitted that there is more that the Sanders campaign can do to get young voters to vote.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, obviously there\u2019s also more that we need to do in terms of turning out youth voters,” she said.<\/p>\n
“We need to make sure that we\u2019re inspiring young people to turn out, but when you do turn out, you should not be waiting three, four, seven hours in order to vote. And that causes people to leave,” she added.<\/p>\n