Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, a sign of the president’s strength in uniting his party to have the backing of one of its most liberal members
Why doesn’t AOC run? I’d vote for her. I’ve been impressed with her job so far
Run in the primary the party isn’t allowing?
She can’t run in something that doesn’t exist.
Run 3rd party in the general?
Progressives tend to care enough about America they won’t hand the election to trump
If someone big declared (AOC included), the party would have to run a primary, because arbitrarily shutting them out would be more damaging than debates and internal dissent, but all the big names know they couldn’t win a primary and would only hurt Biden in the general so they’re falling in behind him. As long as it’s joke challengers like RFK Jr. and Marianne Williamson though, they can scrap it without worry.
AOC is 33 years old. You have to be at least 35 years old to run for president.
2028 would be the earliest that she would be viable on one condition. If millenials and Gen Z voted Democratic nearly 100%. Ideally, this should happen because that would mean 2-3 red states and every other state is blue. So, we’re going to have to wait for 2032 at the earliest or 2036 for AOC to have her time to shine. I’d gladly vote for her.
I think they know she can’t win right now. No real progressive can yet. They need to build up her record more and let more of the old neo-libs die off first.
Bullshit. It’s because they don’t want a real progressive to win. They did everything they could to keep Bernie from winning when he ran. The left wing of our government is further right than the right was 50 years ago, and the DNC will do whatever they have to do to keep it that way.
