Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has accused establishment Democrats of treating her “like shit” as progressive activists urged her to run for president in 2028.
In a 100-minute long video posted on Instagram, the 37-year-old congresswoman from New York said that the party had a “remarkable opportunity” to pass left-wing policies after the midterm elections. She also accused the party’s leadership of starving funds from left-wing candidates during the campaign.
“There’s this huge conversation about candidates that were under invested in,” Ocasio-Cortez said. She cited Angie Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America who came within 240,000 votes of flipping Florida from red to blue, but ultimately lost to the Republican candidate Ashley Moody.
“If Angie Nixon had just had a little bit of that support, that outcome could have changed. But that money has to come from somewhere and it comes from these people,” Ocasio-Cortez said in reference to the party’s Senate leadership.
Reflecting on the period after she was first elected to Congress in 2018 at the age of 29, Ocasio-Cortez accused senior Democrats of being “horrifically cruel” to her. “I mean I was treated like shit,” she said. “Everybody took a swing at me.”
The Bronx congresswoman is seen as the likeliest progressive candidate to run for the Democratic nomination for president in 2028.
If she’s the democratic candidate then democrats are dummer then I thought. It’s been proven the US will not vote in a women president. Boomers won’t, Muslims won’t, orthodox Jewish won’t. Uber religious Catholics won’t. Just too much change at once will ruin the it for her. 10:years from now maybe.
Clinton won the popular vote in 2016. We have had a decade since then. I think you are also way over-generalizing the groups you mention.
Last time I checked we still have the electoral college. I should have used that example as well as to why a female president won’t happen yet. I say 10 years as that’s when many older boomers will be dead. A see of change will happen in Washington as millennials step up to the plate to control the white house
I would say it’s been proven that Democrats, mostly progressives, won’t vote for a candidate who spouts conservative values. Which is what both Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris did. For fuck’s sake Kamala Harris graciously accepted the endorsement by fucking Dick Cheney and his piece of shit daughter. Literally the moment she did that I knew we lost the race.
you have no idea what you’re talking about, so you should stop.
I have a pretty good idea what I’m talking about
obviously, you think you do.
you don’t.
Yes, he does. He is correct, too many people (even those on “the left”) don’t seem to come out to vote when a woman is the candidate, not for president at least.
AOC is far far more popular than Hilary ever was. The problem isn’t the voters.
Well, no. The problem is literally the voters, because they keep failing to vote for women to be president.
Well in a couple years we’ll see won’t we. Frankly I hope I am wrong. But I’ve seen this before and how it ends.
go ahead and message me in a couple years.
also, you spelled dumber wrong.
More people voted for Hillary Clinton than Trump.
Yeah but we have an electoral college so that doesn’t matter and many of the small rural states aren’t the voting women type
The Democrats now control enough state legislatures that they can do away with the Electoral Collage via the NPVIC.
Fingers crossed
This is huge, and needs to be a major discussion in America.
I have a feeling we are going to have to hold their feet to the fire to force them to do the right thing.
Sure. My point is that the plurality of voters would vote in a woman, and tried to.
I’m not saying it’s more likely than not, but something like the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is possible.
So, the US as a people would vote in a woman but our antidemocratic political system fucks it up.
Yeah, I also said in another comment that it will happen eventually, just not this next election
This is unfortunately very true, have my upvote.