AOC reacts to Biden's primary wins: 'There's no sugarcoating it, tonight's a tough night'

Bernie Sanders surrogate Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., told her Instagram followers that there was "no sugarcoating it" following another strong election night for Joe Biden Tuesday, with the former vice president racking up wins in Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi and Idaho.

Tuesday's results put Biden firmly in the driver's seat in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination and cloud Sanders' potential path to a majority of pledged delegates, or even an opportunity to force a contested convention. The Democratic party has largely chosen Biden and his incremental progressivism over Sanders and his democratic socialist movement, which Ocasio-Cortez proudly considers herself a member of.

"There's no sugarcoating it, tonight's a tough night," she said in an Instagram Live video. "Tonight's a tough night for the movement overall."

The freshman lawmaker then dove into the exit poll data that many news networks were reporting regarding the age of the voters who put Biden over the top Tuesday. -Read More