Independent Senator Bernie Sanders floated Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a potential presidential candidate in the 2028 elections, saying that even though it’s “her decision to make,” she is a “very, very good politician.”
Speaking to Axios, Sanders said that he has been “out on the streets with her” and noticed how she responds when people come up to her. “It’s so incredibly genuine and open.”
Ocasio-Cortez is seemingly positioning herself to run for higher office, whether it is challenging Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for his seat or to make a run for president.
Oh, are we gearing up for another round of “Let’s smear one party over an issue that neiher cares about”? I love that! Worked so well last time. Sabotaging the dems in the name of progress and human rights in order to get Trump to tear down both of them.
The things that matter for an election are the things that the election can change. Support for Zionist atrocities is not one of those things. Focus on the things where they actually are different, because there are a lot of other important problems at stake.
You won’t help Palestine by propping up Republicans.
I know my audience don’t worry. Many people don’t want anything to do with zionism and they deserve to know these basic information. You don’t like the truth? talk to AOC and his zio friends Bernie.
Do you mind giving an alternative for the record?
Afaik Bernie has been the most outspoken advocate for Palestine in US Congress.
Im asking you seriously because otherwise you are just noise. The domestic issues are far more important to the average US voter than the atrocities being committed in Gaza by Israel.
I’m going to lose all my karma. But the democrats don’t need a pretty face.They need a freaking platform.
she really doesn’t have a chance anyway.She’s too polarizing. Clinton was same the same way.
We need to beat the republicans, not keep throwing them.Elections. also our identity politics are cringeworthy
Let me join you in the karma loss:
Hillary Clinton: Lost to Donald Trump
Joe Biden: Beat Donald Trump
Kamala Harris: Lost to Donald Trump
There are too many Christian swing voters that will NOT vote for a female President, full stop, and that is baked into the Christian psyche. Christians are taught that Woman was first deceived by the serpent and disobeyed God first, and afterwards she took on the role of the serpent and directly tempted Man. It’s why they do not elect a woman into ANY leadership roles within the church.
I don’t know how many times the Democrats need to lose to learn this lesson, but the fact that nobody recognizes any of this doesn’t bode well.
Support for what ever she decides is next, although I feel like the senate would be a better step. However the democrats dont really have a face to back that isnt some centerist that thinks its ok to play with the bully after they have taken your lunch money or someone that is older than Wonder Bread ™.
They are going to basically offer her Chuck’s Senate seat, unopposed, as long as she doesn’t go after the nomination that they have already awarded to Newsom. He’s the Next One Up!
Nooooooo!
He literally pushed to make being unhoused a crime.
Newsom is fine. The right smears him and California almost as much as they did HRC. Don’t go along with their propaganda.
Zionist endorses zionist.
Oh shit the ML are back to destroy the left because they love MAGA. It’s been a while since I saw an ML account. Yall ramping back up for the midterm manipulation?
AOC supports Israel. We cannot have pro-Israel candidates. If AOC is the candidate, I’m not voting for her.
Yes let’s split the left some more 👍
That’s what leftists want. There is zero unity on the left. I get mobbed on here for saying I’ll vote as far left as I can before I’m forced to vote centrist. It’s a reality. We’ve faced that reality three cycles in a row now. The right has nothing but unity. I’ll vote for a leftist female as far as I can. Will the rest of the left?
There’s exactly 0 politicians opposing Israel in all of USA. Which one do you think should run for president?
Grow the fuck up, you’re not a child anymore
Artificial dichotomies are unfortunately a consequence of the voting system. Would you consider voting for her if the Republican rival was just as pro-Israel or more? Or slightly more pro-Palestine but very much against you in many other issues?
I have had this discussion many times. They do not seem to understand that not voting for Dems because of Israel just enables Bibi’s buddy who is currently tearing down the White House.
Look what not voting has done you stupid fucking ingrain.
Go throw yourself in the line of fire, it will literally do less damage to all the people that the Nazi pigstate is doing to America right now.
Holy fucking shit you people are so pathetically useless.
There’s so many of them on Lemmy it’s wild. These little fucks better get out and vote for the Democrat whether it’s a centrist or not. The alternative is GOP. I seriously don’t get what they don’t get.
Non an american but I feel like US needs a revolutionary candidate to come back from Trump. It has to be someone strong enough to put nazis back into their place.
It’s still early to talk about this though right? From what I understand the upcoming midterms will shape everything else.
Lol the DNC has chosen Newsom as the new golden boy.
The DNC would run the corpse of Hillary Clinton again before letting a progressive have power.
I would love for AOC to actually be allowed to be voted on, because she would probably win the popular vote like progressives almost always do.
And the status quo liberals will coalesce like Voltron to stop her just like they did with Bernie.
Taking the L a bit early no?
Pointing out your most strident opponents tired strategy is hardly acquiescing to it.
Yeah they aren’t powerful enough to stop candidates any more.
Things have changed.
I think that plenty of people who voted for Trump would be fine voting for a woman president as long as she’s strongly advocating change
These people just know that things aren’t great, they don’t know whose fault it was or what policies caused it. So they vote for the person who says they’ll change the most.
The largest deciding factor stated by people after voting was the economy. People remembered that there was a lot of inflation under Biden, and didn’t want to keep similar policies. Of course, we know that Trump’s first term had a pretty large influence on the state of the economy under Biden, and Biden’s policies probably didn’t hurt the economy. But the average voter is not that informed.
I think that plenty of people who voted for Trump would be fine voting for a woman president
I’m sorry, but this is based on what, exactly? I know you didn’t base it on historical data. Trump won against Hillary Clinton, a woman, lost against Joe Biden, a man, then won against Kamala Harris, a woman.
2016 turnout for Clinton/Trump: 128,837,949
2020 turnout for Biden/Trump: 155,507,476
2024 turnout for Harris/Trump: 152,319,643
3,187,833 fewer people turned out for the Harris/Trump election.
That’s two data points influenced by countless other factors. Like the economy, which I mentioned.
The Dems learned nothing.
Did you hear Kamala’s endorsement of Mamdani? It was forced out of her like when you make a five year old apologise.
A female president of a normal age would be an amazing change for the US. Why does it always have to be geriatric males?
People thought the same when Obama was running.
America is incredibly sexist. And racist.
As much as I would love for her to change things up, the reality is America isn’t ready to elect a woman. She simply won’t win. We need a male candidate, especially against the current testosterone driven gop. A woman simply won’t convert vites from gop to democratic, it just won’t happen.
If you even get to 2028, good luck.
Harris was just Biden extended and I think the lack of voter turnout amongst democrats despite the stakes showed what a big disadvantage being a woman is.
The fact 2016 popular vote was close was crazy, but then you have a (half) black woman?
I dunno.
She’s one of the best already in the system, but she’s nowhere as quick quitted or ready on her feet as Mamdani, and more than that, unless they get the house and a super majority in the senate, it’s going to be very hard for her to promise things that will actually come true.
All of that of course has the background where the US might very well not have a 2028 election, especially if they don’t have a massive change in power in the 2026 mid terms.
I would love it. I would love a coloured woman in the top position as a direct pendulum swing back from Trump, but I am also pragmatic and I’m not sure the racism wouldn’t win over actually having a more progressive platform.
Harris raised Biden’s numbers. He was on his way to a loss even before his brain melted on live TV. Her problem wasn’t being a woman, it was that the Biden presidency was already unpopular and she actively promoted that she’d be Biden extended. You don’t win as an unpopular incumbent saying you’d do nothing different.
Americans have elected women to every other position of government. I think the issue is Trump as a candidate can motivate the low-info misogynists to turn up when running against a woman. Gotta support team boy.
If that were the case, trumps numbers wouldn’t be similar to the prior election while Harris’s numbers were notably lower.
I think AOC is perceived as a brat by most of the right and it is thus unlikely she could win. I’d love for her to win, but it won’t be her.
We tried catering to them the last two elections. The only way we win is by getting the left to vote. The “centrists” who told you to nominate a moderate were lying.
Conservatives will beat a woman every time. I love AOC, but for the love of God do they want to win?
America is still too sexist.
Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. She only lost because of the electoral college, which is an antiquated concept that needs to go away.
Kamala Harris lost because she was a terrible candidate who was shoehorned in at the last second after it became apparent that Joe Biden was unfit to run for a second term. The Democrats and media lied about Biden for so long that it was too late to hold a proper primary. And by then, enough people were so upset that they just didn’t show up to vote, especially since the media kept telling everybody she was going to win for sure.
Unfortunately, winning the popular vote doesn’t really count for anything, as broken as it is, the EC is here to stay.
True, but my point was that the reason Hillary Clinton lost wasn’t sexism, it was the electoral college.
I will add that broken systems need to be acknowledged or we will definitely be stuck with them forever.
I’d love it, but we need a sure win this time. Not getting a 50 year old white dude will make it harder. We’ve tried a shitty blonde, an old guy, and a black woman. We need someone who will take votes from the red.
The problem isn’t their skin. The problem is their policies and corruption
I think running a candidate who actually offers real solutions to the problems people are facing is more important than fitting a particular demographic.
Each of the last three Dem noms were also centrist neolibs.
Yes but centrist neolib would be a massive improvement right now. You have idiotic fascist, the few smart ones sleep with Julius evola under their pillow. Somehow they also have “christians”.
They can unite all kinds of weirdos and the left is divided over too many things.
The point is that they’ll keep losing because you don’t excite people by saying “we’ll make sure things don’t get much worse.”
We tried a corrupt neoliberal, a feeble neoliberal, and a sleazy neoliberal. I suspect they all had something in common that was very offputting to the entire populace. If only we could figure out what that was and not repeat it.
