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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s rise was a swift one. And a lot of that was thanks to her advertising.

A campaign video—dubbed “The Courage to Change”—showed AOC getting ready in the morning in her New York apartment, then commuting on the subway and speaking with New Yorkers. In the video, she laid out her beliefs: Medicare for all, tuition free college and criminal justice reform. “It doesn’t take 100 years to do this. It takes political courage,” Ocasio-Cortez says in the ad.

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