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- Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez formally nominated Sen. Bernie Sanders for president on Tuesday night during the Democratic National Convention.
- What Ocasio-Cortez did was symbolic and part of the process, but it led to a flurry of confusion online.
- "If you were confused, no worries! Convention rules require roll call & nominations for every candidate that passes the delegate threshold. I was asked to 2nd the nom for Sen. Sanders for roll call. I extend my deepest congratulations to @JoeBiden _ let's go win in November," the New York Democrat said in a tweet addressing the confusion.
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Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York formally nominated Sen. Bernie Sanders for president during the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night, prompting widespread confusion on social media.
Many people seemingly believed the progressive lawmaker was somehow challenging former Vice President Joe Biden's nomination in a substantive way, but her nomination of Sanders was entirely symbolic and part of the process of the convention.
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