Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the darling of the media and the left…
She is mentioned as a possible House Speaker and even a Presidential nominee even though she to young to be president…
Folks?
She’s just a 1st year House Rep….
A media icon for sure…
But in the Congress?
She just is one of many people with outsized ego’s….
Ocasio-Cortez IS a smart politicain….
She’s a natural…
And has made sure she gets along with House Speaker Pelosi and others that count…
Less then 2 years in Congress?
She just nominated a possible president in Bernie Sanders…
Progressives maybe unhappy…
But the lady IS doing pretty damn good….
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had less time to speak at the Democratic National Convention than a former Republican governor, a George W. Bush Cabinet official, and the party’s unsuccessful 2004 nominee.
And the left isn’t happy about it, reigniting some of the tension from the 2020 presidential primary.
“AOC is the personification of the future of the party, but the traditional Dems have always struggled to keep up, motivate, and inspire,” said Natalia Salgado, chief of civic engagement at the Center for Popular Democracy. “If they understood what they need to do to turn out our communities, they would have had AOC front and center.”
Biden’s convention has so far seemed more intent in reaching out to moderates and disillusioned Republicans rather than the left wing of the party that he defeated in the primary. It’s unclear whether Ocasio-Cortez would have spoken at all had Bernie Sanders not asked her to second his nomination.
The convention schedule is part of the larger dance Biden has been performing the past several months to try to satisfy the center and left of the party. The outrage surrounding the small role for Ocasio-Cortez is part of the broader tension between the two wings of the party even as they collaborate to oust President Donald Trump.
“It’s definitely disappointing that she got less time than Republicans like John Kasich,” said Angela Lang, executive director of BLOC, a progressive group that focuses on organizing Black voters in Wisconsin. “Ultimately, the focus is on the eyes on the prize [of] defeating Trump in November. But I’d be lying if I didn’t say I was disappointed.”
Ocasio-Cortez, a freshman New York lawmaker and democratic socialist who’s become a favorite target for the right, heaped praise on Sanders but kept her highly anticipated remarks fairly tame. During her 60-second speaking slot, Ocasio-Cortez said “millions of people in the United States are looking for deep, systemic solutions” to economic and health care issues. Simply put, she argued, Sanders’ candidacy fought for the establishment of “21st-century social, economic and human rights.”…
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