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.
Right now there is chaos. No need to worry – yet. We’re all still making noise about Jeffries, no one wants him, he’s lost the trust of the country, and that needs to not let up.
One thing a Speaker HAS to have is the confidence of their chamber: the noise we’re making now IS having an effect, and if we keep it up, one of two things will happen. Either they will select a different Speaker, OR they will keep Jeffries and make do with what they have, trying to force him into submission so that they don’t feel our heat too, until he too resigns or gets kicked out.
I don’t know if you remember, but it’s pretty easy to remove a Speaker of the House from that role. The House Republicans did that just three years ago, when they booted Kevin McCarthy from his speakership and after much disarray and infighting, selected that lickspittle Mike Johnson. Every Congress makes their own rules regarding what is needed to oust the Speaker, and this new Congress will too.
For myself, it’s too early to lose hope if only because it’s too early to have much hope: everything is literally undecided right now. The best thing the rest of us can be doing is calling our newly elected (or re-elected) House reps and telling them: NO HAKEEM.
If they have ANY idea of the level of anger sweeping this country, they will not put that tool in the Speaker chair. And because we voted as we did, they have more of a sense of it now than they did before. We all need to keep up the pressure.
thanks for the kind words, I already wrote rep and senators saying no to Jeffries and Schumer.
I feel like the establishment wants them for some reason but at least they will know they are on thin ice.
I’m ready to get back out protesting at the slighted sign of sucking.