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"There's no sugar-coating it. Tonight's a tough night. Tonight's a tough night electorally," @AOC says in her Instagram live chat.
.@AOC talks about the generational divide and congratulates @JoeBiden on winning his races tonight.
"There's a generational divide in the Democratic Party on health care, on climate change, on foreign policy," @AOC says. Calls the divide is "stark" and "decisively different."
"We don't dismiss voters. We don't think people as disposable. Your vote matters," @AOC says about telling people to not blame older voters here.
"Movements aren't necessarily electoral," @AOC says.
"People get better at learning to vote over time," @AOC says.
"Our generation seems to have a streak of progressivism that doesn't seem to be going away soon," @AOC says.
.@AOC says that she is very concerned on what this all means for climate change.
"The good news" is that a vast majority of Democratic voters believe in Medicare for All and climate change, @AOC says. She adds that they "are winning on the issues."
"The notion of electability and the ideas of what people think about to defeat Donald Trump" has been "decisive" this cycle, @AOC says.
That has led to ugly reactions this cycle, @AOC says.
.@AOC says that the "number 1 enemy" of the movement "is cynicism."
.@AOC says that you should never ever "let your heart turn black" when it comes to fighting for issues you care about.
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