{"id":501371,"date":"2026-10-19T20:32:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501371\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T20:32:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:32:51","slug":"aoc-to-rally-with-villegas-in-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501371\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC to rally with Villegas in Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D\u2013NY) will join Congressional candidate Randy Villegas for a rally in Bakersfield on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ocasio-Cortez previously endorsed Villegas, a Visalia Unified trustee who is challenging Rep. David Valadao (R\u2013Hanford).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The big picture: The Villegas campaign announced Monday that Ocasio-Cortez is coming to Bakersfield for a get-out-the-vote rally with the midterm elections coming up in the next few weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">State of play: Ocasio-Cortez is coming to Bakersfield shortly after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I\u2013VT) came to the Valley to campaign with Villegas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sanders appeared alongside Villegas earlier this month as part of his Fighting Oligarchy Tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez also stumped for Villegas during a Bakersfield rally in April.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What we\u2019re watching: The rally with Ocasio-Cortez will start at 6:30 p.m. on Friday. The Villegas campaign did not publicly announce the location of the rally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D\u2013NY) will join Congressional candidate Randy Villegas for a rally in Bakersfield on Friday.\u00a0 Ocasio-Cortez&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-501371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}