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DSA wants to ‘take over’ Dem party with AOC 2028 presidential bid, Mamdani campaign guru admits
NY Post ^ | 10/28/26 | Craig McCarthy

Posted on 10/28/2026 7:59:57 PM PDT by Libloather

They want to seize the means of party production.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s campaign guru admitted the DSA’s ultimate goal is to “take over” the Democratic Party — by running lefty darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for president.

Andrew Epstein, 38, recently told a Belgian newspaper that the Democratic Socialists of America want to build on victories from over the last year, such as Mamdani’s election and comrades Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez soon-to-be joining AOC in Congress.

“I think we want to take over the Democratic Party,” he told Dutch-language outlet De Tijd, according to a translation of the Tuesday article.

To achieve its aim, the DSA needs to run one of their own for president, with the clear choice being AOC, the far-left political strategist said.

“I cannot imagine any other politician who can mobilize the electorate needed to win the presidency,” Epstein was quoted as saying.

“You can only change a party by putting forward a president,” he said, adding, “Just look at how [President] Trump has transformed the Republicans.”

Epstein was the spokesperson and creative mind behind Mamdani’s Democratic mayoral primary campaign that saw the little-known state lawmaker trounce ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a stunning upset that made global headlines.

During the general election that followed, Epstein was moved out of the spotlight and replaced as campaign spokesperson.

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KEYWORDS: aoc; demagogicparty; democrats; dsa; handwringingdoomers; madmani; newyork; newyorkcity; president; zohranmamdani

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Well, the commies did put democratic in the title, so...


1 posted on 10/28/2026 7:59:57 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Photo....

To cops arresting him for election law violations:
“I was framed.”


2 posted on 10/28/2026 8:05:30 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Libloather

Internment camps and cattle cars are a real thing with these creeps.


3 posted on 10/28/2026 8:07:47 PM PDT by Track9 (Liberal tears make me smile. Thank you DJT! ABM = anything but muslim )
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To: Libloather

The many pundits and TV blabbers said last year and the year before “the Democrats are heading into a political civil war” “Will the moderates stand up to the socialists and kick them out?” “The Democrats may never win again because of the American people’s rejection of their extreme leftists.”

I said on FR all along that the leftist side will simply take power, crush the others and there will be a strong alignment together to unite against Trump.


4 posted on 10/28/2026 8:08:55 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: All

Same $#it, different century.

5 posted on 10/28/2026 8:10:30 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: frank ballenger
I said on FR all along that the leftist side will simply take power, crush the others and there will be a strong alignment together to unite against Trump.

Which is what they're doing in Brazil right now. And it happened in 2020 when the Biden Administration took power.

6 posted on 10/28/2026 8:11:25 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Track9

And does someone have the clip or soundbite of the guy who proudly proclaimed he was building up hollow points and various automatic weapons to use to kill Trump supporters because the socialist side has to win by any means necessary?
Not sure if the audio was on Steve Gruber or Chris Plante last week. Chilling.


7 posted on 10/28/2026 8:11:40 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Libloather
AOC says Brazilian leader who imprisoned his last opponent and forced his new opponent into exile is a pillar of democracy
8 posted on 10/28/2026 8:12:37 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: MinorityRepublican

One thing is true, Nancy Pelosi would have nipped the revolt in the bud and worked out a compromise to make it a true Big Tent. Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are taking the cowering and whimpering route. But the party is not a divided thing of the past anyway.


9 posted on 10/28/2026 8:14:36 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Nancy Pelosi would have nipped the revolt in the bud and worked out a compromise to make it a true Big Tent.

Agreed. But she got old. And she didn't have a successor in place so it was easy for the DSA to take over.

10 posted on 10/28/2026 8:17:24 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: frank ballenger

Guess we’ll find out who’s right.

You kinda have to admire how they fight for what they believe in. Our side??


11 posted on 10/28/2026 8:23:43 PM PDT by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: Libloather

Talk about a punchable face!


12 posted on 10/28/2026 8:24:55 PM PDT by Freedumb
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To: frank ballenger

All the blabbers seem to think that the “moderates” can win a civil war in the dem party. This is where the phrase “without evidence” would be very useful.


13 posted on 10/28/2026 8:32:29 PM PDT by Bernard (The only Fair Tax is the Tax that taxes you and not me.)
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To: Bernard

What *I* wonder, suppose the DSA takes over. Do the moderates (assuming any still exist) just go along to get along, do they just fade away and wait for the DSA to fall apart, and then come back? Or heaven forbid, do they join the right in opposing them? (If only for a couple of election cycles).


14 posted on 10/28/2026 8:46:37 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: Libloather

The USA is totally F’d with an AOC at the helm.


15 posted on 10/28/2026 8:52:40 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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As we know, AOC would just be the puppet head.


16 posted on 10/28/2026 10:15:55 PM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: Paladin2

Can you say “existential crisis?”

A real one, this time.


17 posted on 10/28/2026 11:35:09 PM PDT by cld51860 ("This business will get out of control...")
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Yup, this is an existential crisis for our country

The up and coming Democrat politicians are first and foremost bat shit crazy indoctrinated communists. They are also totally corrupt machine politicians who use government welfare programs as a tool to for fraud and theft as we are learning from Minnesota and California . Worst of all, they hate America and feel they represent the interests of Marxist foreign interests and governments- especially China

They represent a Democrat base which is both radically progressive and similarly bat shit crazy


18 posted on 10/29/2026 12:37:45 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead)
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To: cld51860

Yup, this is an existential crisis for our country

The up and coming Democrat politicians are first and foremost bat shit crazy indoctrinated communists. They are also totally corrupt machine politicians who use government welfare programs as a tool to for fraud and theft as we are learning from Minnesota and California . Worst of all, they hate America and feel they represent the interests of Marxist foreign interests and governments- especially China

They represent a Democrat base which is both radically progressive and similarly bat shit crazy


19 posted on 10/29/2026 12:37:48 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead)
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To: Libloather

”Epstein “ It always seems to be one of ...I’d better stop .


20 posted on 10/29/2026 1:17:07 AM PDT by sushiman
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