In. doing so….
We’ll see if the other Progressive Democrats follow suit…..
They actually don’t have much of a choice…..
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, sending a strong sign of Democratic unity from one of the party’s most liberal members.
“I think he’s done quite well, given the limitations that we have,” Ocasio-Cortez said on the “Pod Save America” podcast Thursday. “I do think that there are ebbs and flows.”
Ocasio-Cortez, a self-described democratic socialist from New York, has sometimes bucked Biden and the party’s leaders, including voting against the deal the president negotiated with Republicans in May to raise the nation’s debt ceiling and casting the lone Democratic vote against a spending bill to keep the government operating and avoid a partial government shutdown.
She endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary and demurred in an interview last year when asked if she would support the incumbent president in 2024.
Biden is facing nominal primary challenges for next year’s election in self-help author Marianne Williamson and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Ocasio, when asked about whether she’d support Biden, said: “I believe, given that field, yes.”….
image….Fox News
Of course “given the present field” is a pretty wide escape hatch, should there be a challenger to Biden that’s more serious than the current two eccentric midgets.
But even AOC could get in trouble with our comrades in today’s hyper-purist Democratic Socialists of America.
The Massachusetts DSA is considering a resolution to expel one of the two sitting members of the state legislature for endorsing Maura Healey for Governor last year. And the Rhode Island DSA is considering un-endorsing on of the the DSA comrades who sit in the Rhode Island General Assembly.
This dead-end approach, ignoring the realities of achieving anything good short of the Socialist Commonwealth, is one of the things that brought down the old Socialist Party of America (1901-1972). Thousands left the New York party in the 1930’s to support FDR (D), Sen. Herbert Lehman (D-NY) and New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia (R). These former SP of A members helped to form the Social Democratic Federation, the American Labor Party and later the Liberal Party of New York.
AOC has joined the establishment a while ago….
She made friend’s with Pelosi before she stepped own….
She seems to have settled down to a certain extent….
Socialists infighting like the Right , eh?
Support to the group or else?
And THAT might make the group happy but cost ya ur conscience and job?