AOC top adviser Corbin Trent abruptly exits campaign
By Carl Campanile
March 3, 2020 | 10:53am
https://nypost.com/2020/03/03/aoc-top-adviser-corbin-trent-abruptly-exits-campaign/
A top adviser to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has abruptly left her campaign, The Post has learned.
The freshman lawmaker’s campaign spokesman, Corbin Trent, revealed his surprise departure when a reporter contacted him for comment on Sunday.
His affiliation with AOC was also scrubbed from his twitter account.
Trent referred questions to AOC’s campaign manager Rebecca Rodriguez, who declined comment.
He was part of AOC’s brain trust when she shocked the political world by ousting ex-Rep. and then-Queens Democratic Party leader Joe Crowley in the 2018 Democratic Party, becoming the youngest woman elected to Congress.
AOC, a democratic socialist, has emerged as one of the most powerful voices on the political left in the US. She is heavily favored to win re-election later this year in the 14th congressional district covering parts of The Bronx and Queens.
Trent, 31, is a co-founder of Justice Democrats, the progressive political action committee that recruited and backed Ocasio-Cortez’s successful insurgency that toppled Crowley and backs other leftist primary challengers against incumbents deemed too tied to the status quo and monied interests.
He also worked on Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign for president.
Trent was AOC’s congressional communications director before she reassigned him to work on her re-election campaign last summer when her chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabati, also a leader at Justice Democrats, departed to join a group, New Consensus, to work on climate change issues, the Intercept first reported.
Holy shit, the guy was a co-founder of Justice Democrats?