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.
Yep. I would love AOC to win but there’s no chance in America for that to happen. Our populace is deranged.
The people who would especially hate her would never vote for a non-republican anyway so ya’ll just need to get over it and just go for all-in.
Utterly boring “safe” candidates on the supposed left is how we got here in the first place. Give me a straight-up Marxist, just not with that messaging. And who would they be running against, Vance? Ha
Tons of liberals would never vote for a Marxist
No. Liberals are all cowards and will just have to suck it up and vote D.
Catering to liberal cowardice does nothing to expand the electorate.
They’re here on Lemmy saying they will only vote for a Marxist dream candidate. If the choice is MAGA fascism or an American neoliberal, they’ll sit out.
Not what I said at all
Third female candidate in four election cycles. I dunno, feels like we are asking to lose. And again, I would love to vote for her. Just don’t think the populace can muster it. I have lost all faith in Americans. The hope from Obama’s terms is completely gone.
Yea, it wasn’t the support for genocide or the fact that she was running around with Liz Cheney for a lot of the campaign. Nope, it was all because she was a woman.
Be serious.
Trump was the alternative. Be serious.
It’s true, but we aren’t talking about that now are we? I imagine you’re trying to get at the fact that Trump is worse for Gaza and Liz Cheney is a “better” Republican?
There are/were a lot of people in the US who were/are getting incredibly fucking tired of the right-wingedneas of the Democratic primary. This party did not give them a primary to get to choose their candidate and then they ran a full-blown conservative who alienated their voter base to try to entice people out of a fucking cult. The Dems spat in the face of the people who wanted to vote for them while sucking off the people who would come to assassinate one of their reps and not give a shit about it.
It had nothing to do with her being a woman. Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton were conservatives and people are tired of handing over “wins by default” to those people. I mean, look at how both of them who “totally cared so much about the US” just immediately faded into the background except for a book deal and you can see immediately why no one was buying their garbage.
If you think that any kind of intellectual examination was part of people’s decision making process last election, you are sorely mistaken. It really surprises me that on Lemmy, people think that 90% of voters even think about these things. They don’t. And they won’t. Look at the polling leading up to 2024. Harris was ahead for quite a bit. As the day got closer and Trump started running tabloid ads about trans and immigrants, the polls shifted.
The shift in polling had nothing to do with these nuanced takes about centrists and war hawks and corporate Democrats. Nothing. The masses voted based on last minute bigoted propaganda and claimed it was about the economy.
Your reasoning may apply in small, isolated circles. We are talking about the masses and no, I don’t buy it. I’ve talked to too many people.
Ok so this still doesn’t say anything about her being a woman, though?
And you also seem to have missed that the start of her campaign was the whole “brat” thing and calling Republicans weird, a good debate, and a bunch of other great stuff and then as the months went on then she started hanging around with Cheney more than her own, well-liked, running mate, dodging Gaza questions, telling people that “the economy is good actually”, and dropping all the things she had been doing that really energized her voter base. She was building momentum and then it was so jarring how quickly she suddenly completely turned around on everything that was bringing her success.
No matter what she said about Gaza, it was going to be divisive for the Dems. The only part of American politics that view Gaza as a genocide are leftists. And leftists alone can’t win a national election. We aren’t there yet. What was she supposed to say? And on the economy, yes, she should have talked more about how the economy was good. How they had solved Trump’s inflation. How their plans were bringing stability and growth to America. Because Trump had no plan. He had gibberish answers. Attack soundbites. Trump relied on his surrogates making his points for him. Still does.
I don’t like it that she brought Cheney in. But anyone that saw that and decided not to vote for her has ensured whatever comes to pass. Up to and including absolute fascism and federal control of daily life.
If the left really wants a shot at changing things, the presidential election isn’t where to do it. That would be the absolute last place for change. We need system reform to allow viable third party candidates. The two party system is the flaw. It is eroding our ability to vote for real candidates.
The fun thing about intersectionality is that you could also look at her as the first latina candidate
But looking at what her politics are is somehow never the consideration. In terms of platform, she could hardly be more distinct from either Clinton or Kamala. I like the odds of popular socialist policies much, much better than focus-group tested middling capitalist policies.
Most lemmings do. But it’s about who can finish. I’ll vote for the candidate furthest to the left for as long as I can.
Obama was charismatic. Clinton and Harris were not. That’s the killer difference between them, not that “black/Muslim” was somehow an easier demographic to sell than “woman”.
It literally was easier to sell. I dunno how much evidence Americans need to see before they understand that there is a strong bias against female leaders. Especially for president… wild that so many on here think these are principled decisions people are making rofl.
She’d face the exact same misogyny that Harris did, the difference though would be she’d have a strong enthusiastic volunteer base behind her. I think if the election is fair she’d have very good odds.
We tried Clinton. We tried Harris. I know the conditions are different, but do we really want to risk it when abject fascism is the consequence?
We tried neoliberal. We tried neoliberal. Can we really risk it when fascism is the consequence?
Notice how you only focus on a single one of their shared characteristics to say it’s too risky?
Acting like the average American even knows what a neoliberal is. Lol!
They didn’t know terminology. They know it’s boring and doesn’t help them.
You’re making my point for me while trying to be contrarian.
Running a milqtoast centrist is just fascism with extra steps. They will do nothing of substance and then people will vote for fascists to enact change.
I agree but the issue isn’t what is right. It’s about getting the candidate over the finish line.
I’m not going to go for fascism with extra steps when there is even the slightest chance of something better.
So when the primary is done and the candidates are a centrist vs fascist, you’re going to sit out?
Not at all, but in the primary I’m going to vote for a social Democrat over a centrist.
Same. And I’ve said the same several times. I’ll vote leftist as far as I can. But in the end, we need a leftist coalition around whoever the candidate is. We have to stop the GOP. People that think this will be some chance to make a wild swing to the left really need to curb their expectations.
I think having an authentic populist voice is more important than any race or gender considerations. We simply don’t have another candidate that can do this as credibly as AOC. I think if she runs, in the primary, she’ll handily beat out Newsom, Pritzker or any other white guys in the party who are in a position to run.
Yes!? Clinton was the worst possible candidate for that election and Harris just isn’t a good politician and was utterly sabotaged from Biden among other things waiting waaaaay too long to drop out.
Quit with this shit. Hillary won the popular vote, America will vote for a woman.
Hillary won the popular vote and still lost in a system where the popular vote doesn’t matter. We have a rigged system. I voted for Hillary. It’s not that I don’t have faith in our candidates. I don’t have faith in the system and my fellow Americans.
Hillary won the popular vote as a bland corporate candidate.
Seriously. A bland corporate candidate who gave the opposition two decades of lead time to build up an opposition strategy. One of the worst candidates to have run of all time.
Hillary won the popular vote and people fucking hated her.
Not where it counts.