Posted on 11/29/2024 8:31:35 PM PST by SeekAndFind
While polls of Democratic primary voters have been showing that they supposedly want Vice President Kamala Harris to run again, there's a new name out there, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a member of the far-left Squad.
On Friday morning, The Hill put out an analysis of potential 2028 Democratic candidates, with Harris topping that list of seven candidates, and AOC closing it out. As their blurb on the congresswoman read:
When Democrats talk about the future of the party, the 35-year-old New York congresswoman’s name always bubbles to the top.
Democrats have long been impressed with Ocasio-Cortez’s ability to “cut through the BS and tell it like it is,” the second Democratic strategist said.
“She’s somebody who can cut through the noise and doesn’t talk like Washington.”
Democrats say Ocasio-Cortez would be a magnet for young voters and would have little trouble using social media, podcasts and other online tools, as she has been doing since she was elected to Congress in 2018.
While Ocasio-Cortez was once aligned with progressives including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), she has since backed more centrist candidates.
Still, some Democrats say she still represents a more leftist wing of the party to some voters, something that could hurt her if she pursues higher office.
“She and the ‘squad’ started pushing too hard, too fast,” the first strategist said. “D.C. doesn’t work that way. And our party doesn’t work that way. We need to get back to the basics.”
The congresswoman is indeed young, which might explain why she's considered "the future of the party," but she, and the Squad as a whole, also represent the far-left, radical wing of the Democratic Party. With such a "future," Democrats can very well expect to lose and keep losing.
While the article relies on unnamed Democratic strategists, it's also worth reminding that Democratic strategist James Carville has been at odds with AOC and other progressives when it comes to Democrats losing. This includes the 2021 gubernatorial race in Virginia, where Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin beat former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
The Democratic Party also has to reckon with their antisemitism. Harris ultimately picked Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) as her running mate, despite how it seemed all but certain she would pick Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA), the popular and moderate (enough) sitting governor of Pennsylvania. Harris lost the commonwealth, though, in addition to the six other swing states. Shapiro is also Jewish. While there's reports that he had a bad interview with Harris and didn't want to leave to be someone's number two, it can't be ignored that progressives were calling for Harris to pick someone else, including Walz, over Shapiro.
AOC herself plays a role in the antisemitism, as she was called out early last week for blaming the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for Democrats losing. Such a post of hers further highlighted Democrats in disarray, as Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN), who primaried President Joe Biden for the 2024 cycle before he was forced out by his fellow Democrats, chimed in to call out the congresswoman.
AOC is blaming the Jews for the Democrats losing the House, Senate, and White House.
Color us shocked. pic.twitter.com/60uBhZXjMS— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) November 18, 2024
If people want to talk about members of Congress being overly influenced by anti-pragmatic and anti-semitic interests pushing a wildly unpopular agenda that pushes voters away from Democrats… https://t.co/dGK1d7V6RA— Dean Phillips (@deanbphillips) November 18, 2024
It's also worth looking to where AOC actually stands in those polls showing a plurality want Harris as their nominee. An Emerson College poll released this week showed that 37 percent of Democratic primary voters picked Harris, while 35 percent were undecided, and AOC, just like six other candidates, had only 1 percent support.
The week before, an Echelon Insights poll showed Harris with 41 percent support, while 16 percent were unsure. AOC did slightly better than the Emerson College poll, though she still only enjoyed 4 percent support, with five candidates plus the "undecided" option polling better than her.
NATIONAL POLL
2028 Democratic Primary
Kamala Harris 37%
Gavin Newsom 7%
Pete Buttigieg 4%
Gretchen Whitmer 3%
Josh Shapiro 3%
Michelle Obama 2%
Bernie Sanders 2%
(open ended question)
https://t.co/bhIyIvdxOa pic.twitter.com/B4bg71dOMR— Emerson College Polling (@EmersonPolling) November 26, 2024
🚨 BREAKING: Kamala Harris LEADS the FIRST POLL for the 2028 Democrat Nomination, 41% to 8%
pic.twitter.com/TjRqxlfThs— Red Eagle Politics (@RedEaglePatriot) November 19, 2024
Such speculation over AOC possibly running has been a trending topic over X on Friday, with conservative users actually expressing hope that AOC will indeed run, especially with how easy to beat she's perceived to be.
Joe Concha shared his predictions for the Electoral Map if AOC is the Democratic nominee, with Vice President-elect JD Vance as the the Republican nominee winning by 359-179.
My electoral map if AOC is the 2028 nominee against JD Vance…
pic.twitter.com/uPpSb4Wfu6— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) November 29, 2024
https://t.co/fTtLAlBFUa pic.twitter.com/jM8Wmrqngd— Tony Kinnett (@TheTonus) November 29, 2024
Of course, this is merely speculation. It's also worth reminding that there has been fawning over AOC since before she had even completed her first term, and when she wasn't even yet old enough to be eligible to run. "AOC for president? The buzz has begun," read the headline for a POLITICO post in December 2019. She's also had to make clear she wasn't running for the U.S. Senate this cycle, after there was speculation she'd primary Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
Chatter over AOC, or any candidate that isn't Harris, is likely out there because Democrats know they can't nominate this year's failed nominee once more. Harris has yet to ever win a single primary vote, given that she dropped out in December 2019, before any 2020 primary contests were held, and was installed as the nominee in July, after Biden dropped out and quickly endorsed her.
On Monday, POLITICO put out a piece highlighting how Harris hadn't closed the door to running again in 2028, or running for governor of California On Tuesday night, the DNC released a video message of Harris appearing intoxicated, which led to speculation that they were putting such a video out there when they did to end her political career.
4 years of Trump will make her and her ilk into political nomads.
I’m not sure she would be an easy candidate to beat. she’s young and can speak. Along with being a woman, she will get the hope and change crowd tingling with excitement.
It would be neat to see her actually run from DC to DC. Think she’ll get get there by then if she starts now?
Well, the memes have already been prepped.....
Who?
She will be, a.k.a. Kaiser (ex mayor of NYC) will, Newsom, probably not Harris, and due to her probable death by stupidity (taking her meds on too much ETOH, or taking too much ETOH then forgetting she already took them, for example, or maybe just breaking through the floorboards and crashing into the basement) not Hitlery.
On the Pubbie side, DeSantis, Vance, Joni Ernst, a couple other women, maybe Pence and four or five other less-than-1-percenters like Christie.
It’s a little early to be thinking about their next loss isn’t it?
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C ommunist
Worthy of the Kommie-la swatdown.
I never thought I would live to see this:
The Left is so dedicated to the Dimocrats having the right ideas about how to run our country, but:
THEY FORGOT TO CONSIDER THAT FDR IS NO LONGER OUR COMFORT LEADER, AND WE HAVE COME A LONG WAY TO DISCOVER THAT...:
WE WILL NOT FIND SOLUTIONS IN A SOCIALIST/MARXIST MODEL.
ONCE THAT WAS ESTABLISHED, THE WHOLE AGENDA FELL APART.
AND I SAY:
THANK GOD.....
Trump 47 hasn’t even officially started, so these discussions, though inevitable are silly. How many of us had Donald Trump 2016 at the top of our bingo cards in November 2012? How many Dems had Bill Clinton 1992 at the top of their cards in Nov 1988? A lot can and will happen over the next couple years.
It would raise her profile and give her experience, and the lifestyle of a presidential campaign is fantastic for most of them, especially when it is only for fun or practice.
Duncan hunter enjoyed a 7 million dollar campaign for his retirement and to keep his seat in the family, Ron Paul used to do it and lived the millions of dollars worth of being a star, Bernie Sanders bought several homes from it and of course had the high living during campaigning, and like being s second rate actor, you never know if you will catch the golden ring of vice presidency or a Senate seat just from being in the game, remember Kamala Harris?
And they are spectacular.
All of us hope so.
Very.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, that ditzy congresswoman from the Bronx.
Indeed.
Democrats doubling down on putting blithering idiots up as their candidates.
Really? She was barely a mediocre bartender.
That and a huge rack...
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