Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warns anti-Biden Democrats about what comes next if they succeed
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warns anti-Biden Democrats about what comes next if they succeed
The progressive New Yorker spoke on Instagram about the potential risks of pressuring President Joe Biden to end his campaign.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has issued a dire warning to her party about the chaos that could ensue if they succeed in pushing President Joe Biden off the ticket. And she criticized Democrats who’ve given off-the-record quotes that suggest the party has resigned itself to a second Trump term.
In an Instagram Live video on Thursday, Ocasio-Cortez warned liberals that a brokered convention could lead to chaos, in part because she says some of the Democratic “elites” who want Biden out also don’t want Vice President Kamala Harris as the nominee in his place.
“If you think that is going to be an easy transition, I’m here to tell you that a huge amount of the donor class and these elites who are pushing for the president not to be the nominee also do not want to see the VP be the nominee,” she said.
Ocasio-Cortez claimed none of the people she’s spoken with who are calling on Biden to drop out — including lawmakers and legal experts — have articulated a plan to swap out the nominee without minimizing the serious legal and procedural challenges that are likely to ensue.
Ocasio-Cortez also highlighted the racial, ethnic and class divisions that appear to have formed between the majority of those pining to blow up the ticket — led mostly by white Democrats and media pundits — and those elected officials who feel they and their constituents have too much at stake to upend the process at this point and so are willing to do the work to re-elect Biden-Harris. She alluded to this cultural divide in her video when she spoke out against anonymous sources expressing a sense of fatalism on behalf of Democrats about what might happen if Biden remains on the ticket:
What I will say is what upsets me is [Democrats] saying we will lose. For me, to a certain extent, I don’t care what name is on there. We are not losing. I don’t know about you, but my community does not have the option to lose. My community does not have the luxury of accepting loss in July of an election year. My people are the first ones deported. They’re the first ones put in Rikers. They’re the first ones whose families are killed by war.
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No shit. The time for not backing Biden was in the last primary. If the Democrats weren't so fucking short sighted and power hungry, they would have had a primary all of last year instead of now having to back this geriatric horse against a geriatric, racist, fascist, horse in this race.
That said, I'll be voting for the geriatric horse because the alternative will end up getting my minority ass killed.
Biden just stepped down for elections
Yeah, just saw that on my news feed. While I applaud and massively respect him stepping down, it's way late for this I'm my opinion, especially with this dragging out.
Democrats put themselves in a no win situation with this and while I'm still going to vote for not the geriatric, racist, fascist, cocaine addled horse, the rest of America probably won't after Republicans tar the entire Democratic party as incompetent.
i've decided to turn around. i'm ridin with biden!
But but we want to retain our puppet so we are free to continue to run the government like a half drunken sailor.
A good candidate is the leader who maintains at the very least a perception of authority. Weakness is not a good look for a leader who can no longer fully appreciate the delicate intricacies a sound mind produces, age is the most vicious beast.
Democrats need a better candidate quickly because Biden will lose to power hungry Trump.