Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has issued a dire warning to her party about the chaos that could ensue if they succeed in pushing President Joe Biden off the ticket. And she criticized Democrats who’ve given off-the-record quotes that suggest the party has resigned itself to a second Trump term.
In an Instagram Live video on Thursday, Ocasio-Cortez warned liberals that a brokered convention could lead to chaos, in part because she says some of the Democratic “elites” who want Biden out also don’t want Vice President Kamala Harris as the nominee in his place.
“If you think that is going to be an easy transition, I’m here to tell you that a huge amount of the donor class and these elites who are pushing for the president not to be the nominee also do not want to see the VP be the nominee,” she said.
Ocasio-Cortez claimed none of the people she’s spoken with who are calling on Biden to drop out — including lawmakers and legal experts — have articulated a plan to swap out the nominee without minimizing the serious legal and procedural challenges that are likely to ensue.
Ocasio-Cortez also highlighted the racial, ethnic and class divisions that appear to have formed between the majority of those pining to blow up the ticket — led mostly by white Democrats and media pundits — and those elected officials who feel they and their constituents have too much at stake to upend the process at this point and so are willing to do the work to re-elect Biden-Harris. She alluded to this cultural divide in her video when she spoke out against anonymous sources expressing a sense of fatalism on behalf of Democrats about what might happen if Biden remains on the ticket:
What I will say is what upsets me is [Democrats] saying we will lose. For me, to a certain extent, I don’t care what name is on there. We are not losing. I don’t know about you, but my community does not have the option to lose. My community does not have the luxury of accepting loss in July of an election year. My people are the first ones deported. They’re the first ones put in Rikers. They’re the first ones whose families are killed by war.
With no path to victory by Biden, a vote for Biden is a vote for Trump.
Nice try. It’s only a vote for Trump if you don’t vote.
Nice try, all votes are votes for trump. Biden, third party, not voting, and trump, all are votes for trump. You’ve already voted for him and don’t know it, check your back pocket, there you’ll find a ballot where all the candidates are trump and they’re all filled out. Even your parakeet is voting for trump. Once trump wins again, he’ll split and clone himself like a bacteria and then the new clone will be able to win two more terms since it’s a legally distinct entity, and all votes will be votes for clonotrump.
Did you used to write copy for a Old Spice?
I wish haha.
Calm down there, we don’t live in Russia.
Yet.
Then who does my vote go to if I don’t vote for Trump either? I’m sure as fuck not voting for a Democrat, and I’m sure as fuck not voting for a Republican. From a communist perspective, you both are the same people.
Fuck off. I don’t think Biden can win this, but the ONLY viable choice is whichever D is actually running.
Joined four days ago and clearly here for the open dialogue.
Added to the extensive blocklist.