INTERVIEW – RICH VALDES — GOP challenger to AOC, known to WMAL’s audience as Mark Levin Show’s “Mr. Call Screener”

• His website: http://theRichValdes.com  and Twitter: @RichValdes
• Potential Ocasio-Cortez Challenger: AOC Wants a ‘New Soviet Republic’  A Republican from New Jersey who plans to move to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s district to run against her in the 2020 election blasted the congresswoman’s policies as “misguided” in an appearance at a Queens GOP club Thursday. Rich Valdes, a conservative radio producer who previously worked for NJ Gov. Chris Christie, told about 100 people at the Queens Village Republican Club Thursday evening. “AOC – All Out Crazy – wants to establish a new Soviet Republic. I believe in capitalism over socialism. Her misguided policies don’t represent the district,” he told the crowd.
• AOC ‘runs away’ from opponent Rich Valdes at Puerto Rican Day Parade. US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez turned tail on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue to avoid a potential Republican challenger as they both marched in the National Puerto Rican Day Parade on Sunday, her political opponent said. Talk-radio producer Rich Valdes told The Post that he tried to challenge the freshman Democratic congresswoman to a debate on the merits of capitalism versus socialism when he spotted her near West 47th Street. But Ocasio-Cortez “cut her handshaking short, jerked her hand back and jetted to the other side of the street,” Valdes said. “She literally ran!” he said. “I thought this was a good time to try and get a response but I honestly only saw the back of her head as she trotted across the street.”

AOC 'runs away' from opponent Rich Valdes at Puerto Rican Day Parade https://t.co/CdHoUZyxiR pic.twitter.com/u2rZGODkxG

— New York Post (@nypost) June 9, 2019