In the wake of President-elect Trump’s decisive victory over Kamala Harris and taking both the Senate and the House, the Democrat Party is scrambling to redefine its future.
Instead of heeding the calls for moderation and introspection, the party appears poised to double down on the radical left-wing policies that voters overwhelmingly rejected in 2024.
Among the potential candidates for 2028 are some of the most extreme figures in American politics, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), California Governor Gavin Newsom, and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, The Hill reported.
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Democrats have long been impressed with Ocasio-Cortez’s ability to “cut through the BS and tell it like it is,” the second Democratic strategist said.
“She’s somebody who can cut through the noise and doesn’t talk like Washington.”
Democrats say Ocasio-Cortez would be a magnet for young voters and would have little trouble using social media, podcasts and other online tools, as she has been doing since she was elected to Congress in 2018.
While Ocasio-Cortez was once aligned with progressives including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), she has since backed more centrist candidates.
Still, some Democrats say she still represents a more leftist wing of the party to some voters, something that could hurt her if she pursues higher office.
“She and the ‘squad’ started pushing too hard, too fast,” the first strategist said. “D.C. doesn’t work that way. And our party doesn’t work that way. We need to get back to the basics.”
At just 35 years old, AOC has skyrocketed from a bartender in the Bronx to the ultra-leftist firebrand who brought us such hits as the Green New Deal, Twitter clapbacks, and enough socialist slogans to make Karl Marx proud.
The left has long admired AOC’s ability to “cut through the BS and tell it like it is.” Translation: she tweets loudly, dramatically, and often inaccurately.
Her track record isn’t exactly inspiring. Remember when she cost New York City 25,000 jobs by opposing Amazon’s HQ2? Or when she compared border detention facilities to “concentration camps,” only to be fact-checked into oblivion?
These gaffes might play well with her Twitter following, but for the average voter, they highlight a troubling lack of seriousness.
But AOC is not alone in this radical leftist brigade. Other top potential nominees include the coastal elite, California Governor Gavin Newsom; the pandemic politician, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer; and the weak-on-crime and out-of-touch governors Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania and JB Pritzker of Illinois.
Early names also include Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia, as well as Governors Wes Moore of Maryland, Andy Beshear of Kentucky, and Phil Murphy of New Jersey, according to The Hill.
