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.
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
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.
AOC is a contender and the USA needs sane politicians to lead the country.
She is much better than corporate sellout Gavin Newscom.
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 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
Yeah she should run
I think she’s amazing, but we’ve already seen that Americans don’t want a female president yet.
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.
