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.
I mean how many times do we have to learn the hard way that America won’t elect a woman to be president?
Look at this country.
It’s a shitshow.
It didn’t elect a woman when the other option was a felon, rapist, insurrectionist manchild with one failed presidency and two impeachments already under his belt.
Do we really want to do this again when the stakes are so unbelievably high?
Goddamn. People need to get their heads screwed on straight. She isn’t just a woman, she’s also profoundly hated by a lot of Americans for being so progressive. Why the fuck would we do this to ourselves? I mean America wouldn’t even elect Bernie, the male version of her with a lot more experience.
WE NEED TO START LIVING IN REALITY.
I like AOC. I respect her for what she does. But she’s not going to be president in 2028.
I think it’s not necessarily “because she was a woman”, though without a doubt it was factor.
it was also because they were out of touch neoliberals. Hillary was clearly playing dirty with Bernie, and Kamala was actively participating a genocide.
This is why we have primaries. We don’t need to guess. The last 3 democratic candidates bypassed the primaries because the dem leadership are morons.
Sometimes the best candidate is a woman and nothing can be done about that. I feel like trying to “game the system” is what has caused so much problems with democrats, historically.
They’re always trying to speculate about what their most bigoted neighbor would tolerate instead of trying to inspire left-of-center voters to show up. If we let these worrywarts pick, we wouldn’t have had Obama.
Ive been here since 1975 and America has never had a decent human as a president.
But next time, right?
Not even Jimmy?
Or Obama?
If the GOP wasn’t so strong he could have done a lot more good as well.
We need to change the house and senate, blue cities and states are so under representated
The deporter in chief? The guy who brought open-air slave markets to Libya?
lol right? the man deported far more people than Trump has so far.
edit: and that’s just the beginning of all the insanely fucked up shit Obama did. It’s so crazy how many people who would refuse to vote for a republican with the same track record, but when it comes to Obama it’s either they literally just don’t even know all he got up to at all (which is insane…) - or somehow as a society we mass-forgot about it all?? I find it so utterly bizarre how many people are like “man if we just had obama back all of our problems would be solved”. I actually think it’s a byproduct of social media not really being a thing, his election came a year after the release of the original iPhone. So people weren’t locked in engaging in inflammatory takes and “news” every single day.
And if you remember, leading up to the 2016 election and Cambridge Analytica, suddenly there were takes left and right ranging from “he’s not REALLY black”, “his wife is a man”, to the whole birth certificate idiocy. If we had social media pre-2008 like we do now, I think the fact that his middle name is Hussein would be enough to derail the entire thing.
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