New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani can’t be president, so he’s trying to be the next best thing: a progressive kingmaker for 2028.
Mamdani has been meeting privately with union leaders, urgently talking up the need for a labor-aligned or leftist candidate to run for the White House, four people familiar with the talks told Axios.
He’s arguing that progressives can’t afford to squander their midterm momentum.
Why it matters: Behind closed doors, Mamdani has made a striking admission that helps explain why he’s so eager to huddle with allies about 2028: He’s uncertain whether New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, his close political partner, will launch a White House run, the sources said.
If Ocasio-Cortez stays out of the 2028 race, it would upend the Democratic primary — and potentially leave the party’s insurgent left without a candidate.
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Hillary Clinton, the woman who declared all poor black and brown children to be super predators and as First Lady lead a popular nation-wide propaganda campaign to get far-right bills passed which essentially created the school to prison pipeline that is still causing generational harm to Americans today and has, in fact, been tied directly to the Trump-era propaganda against immigrants which uses the exact same playbook, is the enemy to every single American citizen.*
But it wasn’t just her incredibly racist history, it wasn’t just that she was another Clinton after we saw what happens with legacy presidents with W. Bush, it was her campaign. “It’s Her Turn.” She refused to campaign in most battleground states, she assumed all blue states would automatically vote for her and felt like she didn’t need to campaign hard in those either, and her entire platform was just a more conservative, more war-mongering version of Obama’s 2012 platform – after 4 years of that failing.
Like Harris, she also simply ignored the working class and its concerns and issues. Things weren’t great in 2016. They’re so much better than they are now, but it was already on a downturn and some member of the elite, someone who has never suffered once in her life, someone who has never been hungry or had to pay bills herself, comes in and declares herself the next president, that she’s the only one worthy of being the next president, that she’s the most qualified, that does not once listen to or echo back the actual problems people are having every day and provides no solutions to them…
She had zero chance to win. The fact she funded and encouraged news coverage of Trump also didn’t help. She fundamentally did not understand how unpopular she was, how unpopular her platform (or lack thereof) was, or how popular anyone that was not establishment would be against her.
There may be some sexism involved, in extremely small communities. But the fact there are plenty of red states with women governors, senators, and house members proves it is not about sexism, it is simply the fact they were both incredibly shitty candidates. They had no hope of converting people from the right, and had no want for people from the left to vote for them.
Totally agree, both bad candidates full stop, and as you illustrated so well there were a litany of reasons why. I personally wasn’t happy voting for either because they were bad candidates but did begrudgingly because duh.
I fully am on board that the dems abandoned the working class, because they did, and Hilary was instrumental in all that shit.
But I also have worked and grown up around men and women that don’t believe women are capable of leading a country for whatever obviously ridiculous sexist reason. But because they don’t understand civics they are fine with a woman governor because the president is the man and he’s on top in their minds
There is a significant percentage of sexist people that are fine with women being in charge on a certain scale but not as final decider.
Overall though you and I agree I just wanted to provide some nuance
Its crazy how liberals how to ignore litterally EVERYTHING about the past so that they can flatten conversations into “its sexism, woman bad”.
I appreciate your response thanks for writing it down.
I forgot why Hillary Clinton was so shitty, your words make me hopeful for AOC
I’m scared we’ll get more of the same with Newsom