AOC for president? The buzz has begun

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https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/27/aoc-president-sanders-089617

 

LOS ANGELES — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was campaigning for Bernie Sanders at a jampacked beach-side rally last week when she took a moment to look beyond 2020.

“I know, and we all know, that this isn’t just about Bernie Sanders,” she said. “This is about a movement that has been decades in the making.”

Since endorsing him in October, Ocasio-Cortez has become a supercharged surrogate for Sanders in early-voting and delegate-rich states. As she’s drawn massive crowds alongside the Vermont senator in Iowa, Nevada, California and New York, progressive insiders and activists are increasingly whispering about Ocasio-Cortez inheriting the movement one day — and running for the White House with it behind her.

“The future of the Democratic Party is not Pete Buttigieg. It’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,” said Will Rodriguez-Kennedy, president of the California Young Democrats, which has endorsed Sanders. “She has gripped the attention of fellow millennials across the country. The Green New Deal has changed the conversation on environmental action in the Democratic Party.”

While the two democratic socialists are hyperfocused on 2020, some political operatives see their joint appearances as also laying the groundwork for a possible Ocasio-Cortez bid one day, purposefully or not. They’ve shown that she can excite Democrats in critical early-voting states.

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Having a vivid mind-movie right now of esteemed Congresswoman Occasional-Cortex participating in a one-on-one debate with Pres. Trump.  That would be one for the ages.

 

Her chiefs of staff would have to be brain surgeons, by her side at all times...

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Just that pesky little age issue.

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35 minutes ago, ALFKAD said:

Just that pesky little age issue.

That and the whole Socialist/Communist mentality.

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It is certainly possible that when Trump is done with the GOP that it will be  a fragmented shell with little chance of regaining power in a generation. 

 

If that happens there will be an exodus from the GOP as everything reverts to the mean. When that happens the Democratic party will have new tensions on its progressive flank that could break off into another party as that demographic is growing. And then you would have three "viable" parties.

 

America has always been a two party system, it may need new rules in the House and the Senate to adapt.

 

 

 

Edited December 28, 2019 by 90DayFinancier

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7 minutes ago, 90DayFinancier said:

It is certainly possible that when Trump is done with the GOP that it will be  a fragmented shell with little chance of regaining power in a generation. 

 

If that happens there will be an exodus from the GOP as everything reverts to the mean. When that happens the Democratic party will have new tensions on its progressive flank that could break off into another party as that demographic is growing. And then you would have three "viable" parties.

 

America has always been a two party system, it may need new rules in the House and the Senate to adapt.

 

 

 

                          

 

Yes, one party is certainly  shell of its former self.  You are half right, which is somewhat of an improvement.

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There is a comparable situation in the UK, with Labour and Momentum, the Dem problem is that they now seek to cover such a wide spectrum that it is difficult to see how they can keep it all under control when the Progressive element seems to have taken over and when Progressives may be loud in voice but small in numbers.

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15 minutes ago, 90DayFinancier said:

It is certainly possible that when Trump is done with the GOP that it will be  a fragmented shell with little chance of regaining power in a generation. 

 

If that happens there will be an exodus from the GOP as everything reverts to the mean. When that happens the Democratic party will have new tensions on its progressive flank that could break off into another party as that demographic is growing. And then you would have three "viable" parties.

 

America has always been a two party system, it may need new rules in the House and the Senate to adapt.

 

 

 

Trump and the GOP's fund raising is tremendous..........the party in danger of losing the 2020 election in a record landslide is not the Republican Party.

Edited December 28, 2019 by missileman

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32 minutes ago, missileman said:

Trump and the GOP's fund raising is tremendous..........the party in danger of losing the 2020 election in a record landslide is not the Republican Party.

Then you are safe from AOC for now, phew!

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Just now, 90DayFinancier said:

Then you are safe from AOC for now, phew!

We will not see AOC in any position of real power in my lifetime.......

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AOC is nothing more than a flash in the pan......a mindless Twitter star.

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23 minutes ago, missileman said:

AOC is nothing more than a flash in the pan......a mindless Twitter star.

If I read the quantity of posts on AOC in here, you would swear she is the Antichrist.

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8 minutes ago, 90DayFinancier said:

If I read the quantity of posts on AOC in here, you would swear she is the Antichrist.

I sometimes wonder if AOC were instead a man named Alexander O'Connell-Corrigan we'd hear half as much about him.

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5 minutes ago, laylalex said:

I sometimes wonder if AOC were instead a man named Alexander O'Connell-Corrigan we'd hear half as much about him.

Hmm

 

Well the Squad are all seemingly identifying as female. A certain lack of diversity.

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1 hour ago, missileman said:

Trump and the GOP's fund raising is tremendous..........the party in danger of losing the 2020 election in a record landslide is not the Republican Party.

I wouldn't underestimate how solidified TDS is in a handful of coastal states.