Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) signaled in an interview with Axios on Monday that she would not support New York City Council member Chi Ossé in a primary challenge against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.).
Why it matters: Ocasio-Cortez is one of several high-profile progressives distancing from Ossé’s potential run, arguing that it is a distraction from New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s victory.
Ocasio-Cortez told Axios during a brief interview at the U.S. Capitol that she was “not aware” that Ossé was challenging.
“But,” she added, “I certainly don’t think a primary challenge to the leader is a good idea right now.”
Really AOC? Running cover for the establishment now? At least resort to a tactical silence.
…Really?
It could be a situation where she’s merely reminding us to pick our battles under this regime.
People are desperate to get Dem leadership out after they caved the shutdown to Trump for zero gains. We all want Dems replaced. That is why the progressives are supposed to exist to begin with.
And Hakeem Jeffries is one of the biggest corrupt careerists which needs to go.
Lefty Fundamentalist purity tests are what got us Trump in the first place
How about lets win something before we dismantle our army
Lefty Fundamentalist purity tests are
…normal for the left. The conservatives fall in line, they say, but the progressives need to fall in love. They don’t follow a name with the loyalty of the cons, and they will bail if the character or progress of the current leader isn’t consistent – or if consensus on goals and direction isn’t there.
Hurts to swallow but your right. The problem with Dems is they fail so consistently and intentionally that we never really win enough get out of this mindset
We are often tripped up by trolls.
Billionaires (think Koch Brothers) and authoritarian enemy governments spend untold sums funding troll armies to play the game called:
Let’s you and him fight.
They come with their wedge issues and purity tests and they are very effective.
As soon as we make any headway at all, they come with fresh horrors about transgender girls in high school sports or new pushes to ban guns.
Those issues are perfectly designed to scare any center right (or even center center) supporters back to the GOP.
The current DNC excluding leftists and allying with Liz Cheney is what got us Trump.
DNC gaslighting goes so hard.
That could be true if you ignore all of the actual events that took place
Chuck Schumer throwing the government shutdown for absolutely nothing?
Hello?
How about lets win something before we dismantle our army
What do you do when the people getting protected are hindering those wins?
More contrived rage bait about one of the handful prominent elected officials with something approximating a progressive platform. Spinning an uninformed reaction and one offhand remark into a full headline and story.
I guess par for the course when you consider that the Axios is majority owned by Cox Enterprises who, at a glance, donated at 70% for Republicans and the rest to establishment Dems.
Democrats might be a controlled opposition, but it helps to paint real opposition with the same controlled narrative.
Ocasio-Cortez told Axios during a brief interview at the U.S. Capitol that she was “not aware” that Ossé was challenging Jeffries.
Ossé filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission on Monday
- Progressive Change Campaign Committee head Adam Green told Politico"it is not the right moment to launch a primary challenge against Hakeem Jeffries."\
- Mamdani also appeared to discourage his fellow Democratic Socialists of America member on Monday.
- “I believe that there are many ways right here in New York City to both deliver on an affordability agenda and take on the authoritarian administration in the White House,” Mamdani told reporters of Ossé.
Yeah let’s hear all about how Mamdani exists to be controlled opposition, and how his choices are so fucking questionable lately, and how he’s only driving mainstream liberals back to the Democratic party.
C’mon Tankiejerks. If you trash AOC but can’t find the courage to also trash Mamdani, you’re worthless. So let’s hear it. He’s sold out! In two weeks! Booooourgeois!
No? Crickets as usual from the refuseniks? How odd.
Seriously the more shit i see in here the more I wonder how wrong a strategy it is to tack to the center. The so-called-left can’t win a goddamned participation trophy ffs. We have to put a stake in MAGAs heart in less than a year and this kind of garbage only puts us further away from that.
At least RTFA. The ragebait trap caught a bunch of people.
That looks more like Jeff Coltin’s contribution to what Mandani said. Mamdani did the very politician thing and said ‘there are many ways’. Jeff is adding in the discouragement and the ‘but’ to Mamdani’s quote.
That might have something to do with it.
Clearly the majority of the people in this thread are not basing their world view in reality. God forbid an employee will not openly talk bad about a coworker in an interview to the world. It’s like y’all have no idea how politics works.
I’m pleasantly surprised about how many people realize that a ‘progressive’ should not be actively trying to keep one of the biggest AIPAC recipients in power.
That’s not what this is about at all. What you are asking for is a further fracturing of the Democratic Party and gifting the republicans the election on a silver platter. The exact thing you want to do does nothing but weaken the party. Whether you like it or not we unofficially use a 2 party system. You sound exactly like the “Vote third party because Kamala sucks” people. Look how well that went for the country
The Democratic party is already fractured. Decapitated even. After they threw the shutdown everyone wants them gone.
Fuck AOC she will keep moving to the right until she is the next Nancy Pelosi.
None of you realize the democrat leaders are being accused of having no control over their people. If AOC speaks out they will label her the problem like they did with bernie.
Oh no the horror. The DNC which just betrayed Zohran Mamdani and refused to endorse him despite him winning the Democratic primary. We have to play nice with the people who play dirty.
If she doesnt want them to go to the media blaming her than yeah, first time getting into politics huh? Lol
I think people are becoming disillusioned with progressives that follow the orders of decrepit Neoliberals.
Oh no not the “blame” for running opposition against the establishment ghouls. The horror. Nobody in the public would support that. Everyone loooves current DNC leadership.
At least MTG strikes when she sees blood in the water.
Who benefits from everyone turning on the progressives, like you all are doing? Trump and establishment democrats
