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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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