Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) signaled in an interview with Axios on Monday that she would not support New York City Council member Chi Ossé in a primary challenge against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.).
Why it matters: Ocasio-Cortez is one of several high-profile progressives distancing from Ossé’s potential run, arguing that it is a distraction from New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s victory.
Ocasio-Cortez told Axios during a brief interview at the U.S. Capitol that she was “not aware” that Ossé was challenging.
“But,” she added, “I certainly don’t think a primary challenge to the leader is a good idea right now.”
Really AOC? Running cover for the establishment now? At least resort to a tactical silence.
…Really?
It could be a situation where she’s merely reminding us to pick our battles under this regime.
People are desperate to get Dem leadership out after they caved the shutdown to Trump for zero gains. We all want Dems replaced. That is why the progressives are supposed to exist to begin with.
And Hakeem Jeffries is one of the biggest corrupt careerists which needs to go.
Lefty Fundamentalist purity tests are what got us Trump in the first place
How about lets win something before we dismantle our army
The current DNC excluding leftists and allying with Liz Cheney is what got us Trump.
DNC gaslighting goes so hard.
That could be true if you ignore all of the actual events that took place
Chuck Schumer throwing the government shutdown for absolutely nothing?
Hello?
…normal for the left. The conservatives fall in line, they say, but the progressives need to fall in love. They don’t follow a name with the loyalty of the cons, and they will bail if the character or progress of the current leader isn’t consistent – or if consensus on goals and direction isn’t there.
It’s the shame of having ethics and integrity.
If you remove it, you’re no better than them.
Typical rightie division, demand leftists fall in line and back their shit choices time and time again but throw a fit and try to fuck over any actual leftists from winning at every step.
How about you shut up and stop trying to dismantle us?
What do you do when the people getting protected are hindering those wins?
Hurts to swallow but your right. The problem with Dems is they fail so consistently and intentionally that we never really win enough get out of this mindset
We are often tripped up by trolls.
Billionaires (think Koch Brothers) and authoritarian enemy governments spend untold sums funding troll armies to play the game called:
Let’s you and him fight.
They come with their wedge issues and purity tests and they are very effective.
As soon as we make any headway at all, they come with fresh horrors about transgender girls in high school sports or new pushes to ban guns.
Those issues are perfectly designed to scare any center right (or even center center) supporters back to the GOP.