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Democrats were ‘horrifically cruel’ to me, says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (www.thetimes.com)

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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.

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[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

She has a lot of qualities that each individually could lose support: she's a woman, non-white, vocally progressive, relatively young, only a Rep, and has a long history of demonization by the right.

There's simply no evidence that the plausibly Democratic electorate has a problem with any of these. Capturing swing voters is nice but it's not how elections are won.

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

The primary two I'm focused on are her age and highest office. She is a 37 year old House Representative.

As others have pointed out, only one other President (Garfield) was just a House Representative, and even he was elected to the Senate. And the youngest president ever elected was JFK at 43.

I'm not betting on the youngest, first female, first House Rep. becoming President. I'll bet on the first female president when she's not the youngest and has been Senator or Governor.

Maybe the political landscape will radically change over the next year, I'm not opposed to the idea and that would be awesome honestly. But that's a lot of firsts to tackle, especially when fascism is so pungent in the air.

Put out a 45+ white male progressive for a term or two, lay some groundwork, and then hit'em with Senator Cortez's campaign.

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