Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has issued a dire warning to her party about the chaos that could ensue if they succeed in pushing President Joe Biden off the ticket. And she criticized Democrats whoāve given off-the-record quotes that suggest the party has resigned itself to a second Trump term.
InĀ an Instagram Live video on Thursday, Ocasio-Cortez warned liberals that a brokered convention could lead to chaos, in part because she says some of the Democratic āelitesā who want Biden outĀ alsoĀ donāt want Vice PresidentĀ Kamala HarrisĀ as the nominee in his place.
āIf you think that is going to be an easy transition, Iām here to tell you that a huge amount of the donor class and these elites who are pushing for the president not to be the nominee also do not want to see the VP be the nominee,ā she said.
Ocasio-Cortez claimed none of the people sheās spoken with who are calling onĀ Biden to drop outĀ ā including lawmakers and legal experts ā have articulated a plan to swap out the nominee without minimizing the serious legal and procedural challenges that are likely to ensue.
Ocasio-Cortez also highlighted the racial, ethnic and class divisions that appear to have formed between the majority of thoseĀ pining to blow up the ticketĀ ā led mostly by white Democrats and media pundits ā and those elected officials who feel they and their constituents have too much at stake to upend the process at this point and so are willing to do the work to re-elect Biden-Harris. She alluded to this cultural divide in her video when she spoke out against anonymous sources expressing a sense of fatalism on behalf of Democrats about what might happen if Biden remains on the ticket:
What I will say is what upsets me is [Democrats] saying we will lose. For me, to a certain extent, I donāt care what name is on there. We are not losing. I donāt know about you, but my community does not have the option to lose. My community does not have the luxury of accepting loss in July of an election year. My people are the first ones deported. Theyāre the first ones put in Rikers. Theyāre the first ones whose families are killed by war.
Every single one of these threads, I ask the ditch Bideners for a strategy and have never gotten a single one.
So whatever bubble you think there is, Iām in reality where Biden is the nominee until he isnāt, and the āfuck you Iām taking my ball and going homeā crowd are motherfucking fascist apologizers.
The game is on whether or not you take your ball and go home. The lack of a plan or strategy makes it clear that youāre either not serious or panicking.
You know itās hard to make a strategy if instead of talking about it, someone keeps screeching over it with āWrong!!! Wonāt work! WRONG!!ā And keep vilifying anyone thinking what lots of others are as something worse than the actual enemy.
I think panicking is fine and a normal response to situations that require it. If you think yourself above having to make a snap response you might just miss the chance too.
I meanā¦maybe stop suggesting things that are wrong and wonāt work?
Well I guess we are about to find out if this was right and will work.
If youāre not hearing the strategies, then you have done too good of a job at filtering your news.
Wow.
What a strategy.
Open convention, lively debate, voters get to pick the candidate who is most the engaging, a la JFK.
Or option B, hear me out on this, Kamala Harris. I know right!? I mean sheās already in the White House, she already knows everything going on. She has the money in the fucking bank! Hell, sheās probably already running the show behind the scenes. Wouldnāt be the first time a woman is actually doing all of the work and man is taking all of the credit.
Too late for an open convention unfortunately. I have no problem supporting Harris, but she does have drawbacks as a candidate.
So getting that done is the next step, but it appears Harris as the candidate faces other resistance from within the party. So that would need to be overcome.
In addition, all that keeps the policies of the ticket intact, which makes changing tack midstream easier.
Thank you. We are on the same page. I just hate the āOh no we ate totally doomedā rhetoric that is thrown around all the time.
Realistic plans are good.
Also, to be clear, when I ask for a strategy Iām often just downvoted with no replies and thatās what I meant.
Of course Iāve seen Harris floated as a strategy and of course Iād be on board with that. Just the doomerism without a plan is really not helpful, and that aināt you.