The congresswoman claims party members ‘took swings’ at her when she was first elected. Now, a dedicated organisation is pleading her to run for president

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has accused establishment Democrats of treating her “like shit” as progressive activists urged her to run for president in 2028.

In a 100-minute long video posted on Instagram, the 37-year-old congresswoman from New York said that the party had a “remarkable opportunity” to pass left-wing policies after the midterm elections. She also accused the party’s leadership of starving funds from left-wing candidates during the campaign.

“There’s this huge conversation about candidates that were under invested in,” Ocasio-Cortez said. She cited Angie Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America who came within 240,000 votes of flipping Florida from red to blue, but ultimately lost to the Republican candidate Ashley Moody.

“If Angie Nixon had just had a little bit of that support, that outcome could have changed. But that money has to come from somewhere and it comes from these people,” Ocasio-Cortez said in reference to the party’s Senate leadership.

Reflecting on the period after she was first elected to Congress in 2018 at the age of 29, Ocasio-Cortez accused senior Democrats of being “horrifically cruel” to her. “I mean I was treated like shit,” she said. “Everybody took a swing at me.”

The Bronx congresswoman is seen as the likeliest progressive candidate to run for the Democratic nomination for president in 2028.

  • Krono@lemmy.today
    16·
    21 小时前

    That Clinton fundraising didn’t save the DNC, it destroyed its soul.

    Do you think those millions of dollars of corporate cash came without strings? Of course not. After accepting this money, the DNC was all-in on support for the military industrial complex, wall street, health insurers, etc.

    This had horrible effects on DNC policy in the following years- supporting the forever wars, abandoning the public option, bailing out wall street while abandoning working people… So many horrible things were set in motion by this Clinton corruption.

    Before the Clinton sellout we had one corporate party and one moderate party. After the sellout we only have 2 corporate parties to choose from.

    • xtr0n@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      16 小时前

      Do you think those millions of dollars of corporate cash came without strings?

      No. I do not. And I never said otherwise.

      I was not in any way saying that this was a good thing.

      Before the Clinton sellout we had one corporate party and one moderate party. After the sellout we only have 2 corporate parties to choose from.

      Are you talking about Bill? Cuz the DNC has been all about the donors for a long time. Hillary definitely made it worse (as did citizens united) but they’ve been pretty mid (at best) almost my whole life.