Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and her team are positioning her to run for president or the U.S. Senate in 2028, according to people familiar with her operation.
Why it matters: Ocasio-Cortez’s 2028 decision could shake up the presidential race or the Senate’s leadership. A fellow New Yorker, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, 74, is up for re-election in 2028.
A Senate race between Schumer and Ocasio-Cortez, 35, would be a generational clash pitting the Democratic Party’s leading traditionalist against its star insurgent progressive.
State of play: This year, Ocasio-Cortez — widely known as AOC — has campaigned across the country and in parts of New York State far from her Bronx and Queens district, all while investing millions to grow her already formidable online presence.
She has also brought in some former senior advisers to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to bolster her operation.
Ocasio-Cortez hasn’t made any decision about her future. But her team is working to give her choices.#
Realistically, unless something dramatically changes, there’s no way the DNC would allow her to get the nomination for either position during the primary process.
How realistic is a boring DNC candidate overcoming whatever this is. Perhaps it’s time to part ways with the DNC & just make a new Dem party without them. Though admittedly ripping off the bandaid now could be catastrophic timing, I don’t even know.
Actually incredibly realistic, which is the biggest problem.
If the U.S. still has free and fair elections in 2028, it’s quite likely that the American people will reject the GOP in favor of literally anything else. That means the DNC is free to run the most bland, milquetoast neoliberal whose name rhymes with “lose some,” who will do nothing to stop material conditions from deteroriating further nor impose serious consequences on MAGA. Then, four years after his election, U.S. voters will vote for an intelligent fascist because they don’t want an ineffective do-nothing Democrat.
i think the “party with in a party” strategy is much more promising than outright 3rd party runs. As in using the Democratic ticket to make their candidates relevant, but not using the democrats electoral and fundraising infrastructure, instead developing parallel party infrastructure to campaign and mobilize voters.
The DSA (and WFP to a lesser extent) have been much more electorally successful, particularly at the local level, than organizations that just run third party outright. I don’t think the DSA will have much luck in suburban areas, but I think other coalitions with a similar strategy could be successful.
Been saying this for years - a new party is the only way out of this mess. DNC are conservatives, they’re never going to help us when their alternative is cashing checks for millions of dollars from their donors.
As realistic as what happened in 2016 with the full weight of the DNC being brought to bear on Sanders.
Shes most useful to the DNC as the sheepdog she’s been trained to be.
People still think there will be fair elections in 2028?
Primaries are not fair at all for either party . Only the proper candidates win, as a rule, to advance to the general elections. And many states have problems proving the winner actually won, because of a lack of paper ballots and a lack of recounts.
This has been going on for longer than many reading this have been alive, and should not change in practice for several decades.
Given the history, it’s time the Democratic will win next year and in 2028. They will patch up some damage and will loose again later to the next wave of gop.
This is not democracy.
Only the proper candidates win, as a rule
Was Trump winning an example of that rule, or a counterexample?
Trump made a lot of people a lot of money. So, he was indeed proper.
Senate. While I’ve got no problem with a woman as President enough of America seems to that I’d rather not hand the Presidency to the fascists on a silver platter.
