Independent Senator Bernie Sanders floated Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a potential presidential candidate in the 2028 elections, saying that even though it’s “her decision to make,” she is a “very, very good politician.”
Speaking to Axios, Sanders said that he has been “out on the streets with her” and noticed how she responds when people come up to her. “It’s so incredibly genuine and open.”
Ocasio-Cortez is seemingly positioning herself to run for higher office, whether it is challenging Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for his seat or to make a run for president.
She’s my Rep, and I love her. I don’t agree with her 100%, but I respect her, which is more than I can say about 99% of politicians.
That said, Bernie calling her a “very good politician” is not the compliment he thinks it is. Politicians should do anything they can to keep people from making the connection that at their core they are POLITICIANS.
NOBODY likes politicians.
Idk I do like it when the people in government are aware of how the systems work and how to balance getting things done with keeping to core values as best you can. Inexperienced politicians tend to be loud but get nothing done, and eventually either get voted out or figure it out.
If you look at AOCs transformation over the years, you’ll she’s become much more pragmatic. Personally I see this as a good thing because I’m about to vote for 26 year old Kat Abughazaleh, and when she gets to Congress she’s going to need someone who came from a similar position to help guide her, and AOC is exactly that person.
NOBODY likes politicians.
Pol·i·tics /ˈpäləˌtiks/: from the Latin poly- meaning many; and -tics, meaning blood sucking parasites.
I’m going to lose all my karma. But the democrats don’t need a pretty face.They need a freaking platform.
she really doesn’t have a chance anyway.She’s too polarizing. Clinton was same the same way.
We need to beat the republicans, not keep throwing them.Elections. also our identity politics are cringeworthy
AOC can win. No more milk toast centrists.
dont we want the usa to win?
Do we want really want to.vote on another personality?
What if we choose someone to campaign on a reasonable platform then stick to it.
But im coming of like a broken record, feel free tomi ignore me.
Let me join you in the karma loss:
Hillary Clinton: Lost to Donald Trump
Joe Biden: Beat Donald Trump
Kamala Harris: Lost to Donald Trump
There are too many Christian swing voters that will NOT vote for a female President, full stop, and that is baked into the Christian psyche. Christians are taught that Woman was first deceived by the serpent and disobeyed God first, and afterwards she took on the role of the serpent and directly tempted Man. It’s why they do not elect a woman into ANY leadership roles within the church.
I don’t know how many times the Democrats need to lose to learn this lesson, but the fact that nobody recognizes any of this doesn’t bode well.
AOC is a contender and the USA needs sane politicians to lead the country.
The thing about AOC is that she can bring in the millennials which far out weigh the normal voting demographic.
Her first executive order should be to nullify all executive orders Donald Trump ever made.
Remove that man from history make everyone forget his name.
You know, kind of what happened with Caligula.
Except we still remember Caligula.
Funnily enough “Caligula” is actually a nickname (and one depised by the man himself). His actual name at birth was Gaius Julius Caesar (not to be confused with the famous Dictator Gaius Julius Caesar)
So let’s just call our guy “Diaper Don” in the history books. It’s the best nickname I’ve heard. Pretty fitting to his maturity level and how he’s constantly throwing tantrums.
Ya… His uncle came up with it after he killed most of his family and sequester him and his sister to an island so he can mentally torture the boy for decades.
Or something like that.
Who’s Caligula?
…and we still put people like Caligula into positions of power.
We’re not going to make it, are we? :(
She is much better than corporate sellout Gavin Newscom.
Sir, this is a crucial election. Only the finest corporate sellout will do.
AOC vs Erica Kirk.
The brown girl vs all that is white and right beauty pageant queen pick me. I can already call it. She will be the pied piper leading all the women into the Handmaids Tale.
Non an american but I feel like US needs a revolutionary candidate to come back from Trump. It has to be someone strong enough to put nazis back into their place.
It’s still early to talk about this though right? From what I understand the upcoming midterms will shape everything else.
Hell yes. I’d vote for her any day of the week.
The problem isn’t whether YOU will vote for her. It’s whether everyone else will, including Christian swing voters. If you’re curious about those numbers, just check out the voting demographics for Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.
The last hope, so to say.
I appreciate Bernie for being an adult and helping to boost up the people that will be here after him.
Most every other politician, when they aren’t cramming their unqualified, entitled broodspawn where they don’t belong, is gnawing off limbs trying to make sure they’re entombed with their positions like the pharaohs.
I think that plenty of people who voted for Trump would be fine voting for a woman president as long as she’s strongly advocating change
These people just know that things aren’t great, they don’t know whose fault it was or what policies caused it. So they vote for the person who says they’ll change the most.
The largest deciding factor stated by people after voting was the economy. People remembered that there was a lot of inflation under Biden, and didn’t want to keep similar policies. Of course, we know that Trump’s first term had a pretty large influence on the state of the economy under Biden, and Biden’s policies probably didn’t hurt the economy. But the average voter is not that informed.
Bad idea. Sadly, Americans still care about optics. Americans want someone with a sense of authority and no-nonsense attitude which she doesn’t have. She won’t get voted for even by Democrat voters
I think she’s amazing, but we’ve already seen that Americans don’t want a female president yet.
They don’t want a female CENTER RIGHT president, with absolutely nothing behind them to rally the cause.
Yeah she should run
I’m a big fan of AOC, but I think I’d rather her wait until 2032. The next presidency (if there even is one) is going to be a fucking shitshow trying to clean up Trump’s messes. I’d rather her get the opportunity to be a “get shit done” President, instead of having to spend all her time rooting out Trump’s traitors in the government while getting villainized in the media.
