Independent Senator Bernie Sanders floated Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a potential presidential candidate in the 2028 elections, saying that even though it’s “her decision to make,” she is a “very, very good politician.”
Speaking to Axios, Sanders said that he has been “out on the streets with her” and noticed how she responds when people come up to her. “It’s so incredibly genuine and open.”
Ocasio-Cortez is seemingly positioning herself to run for higher office, whether it is challenging Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for his seat or to make a run for president.
As inappropriate and watered down as it sounds, I honestly don’t think this country is going to vote in a female president this decade. Race plays a part too, but I honestly think that this country is more sexist than it is racist when it comes to presidential voting. It’s partially a gut feelings, but I think gender played a bigger role than many people think in the 2016 and 2024 elections. As messed up as it sounds, I think Bernie POTUS with AOC VP would stand a better chance of winning right now as opposed to the other way around. Even with all of the socialist/communist boogie-man bullshit that Bernie gets thrown at him.
I kinda agree, but crucially I think it’s less that the country isn’t ready to vote for a female president, it’s that after Kamala and Hillary, the Dems think the issue is with them being women.
Also the republicans would have no issue voting in a woman if it was one of their own.
And also, Bernie is way too old to be president. I think the most realistic thing would be to put a “”“moderate”“” dem on the ticket to help ease the pearl clutching from corporate Dems you would get by running AOC so someone like Waltz or Newsom.
I’ve said this before, but I listen to a politics podcast and one of their commentators was in the US for several weeks in the run-up to the last election. They said that over and over again they heard variations on “I hate Trump and everything he stands for, but I couldn’t trust the country to a woman”. That includes people who’d voted for Obama and Biden.
Obviously that wasn’t the only factor, and it doesn’t mean that AOC couldn’t win, but we definitely shouldn’t hand-wave it away, either.
ohh no, some would, but I don’t even know it’d hit the majority in their own lines.
Bernie is too damn old, and to be fair too against what corporations want to get in, but jesus, have you heard him speak recently, you’d think it was in his late 60’s at most and still sharp AF.
We need some youth in there. Bad.
Assuming we actually get a fair vote (not a chance in hell)
They’ll run the same playbook they ran on Harris, it’ll have a slightly different effect.
Like Harris, woman so no right winger will vote for her. They’ll do an A/B push for Gaza - Israel, she’ll go Gaza, they’ll demonize her as Middle Eastern. Push as many jews over as they can. They’ll start poking at her voting history try to disenfranchise the left.
She’s not quite as soft as a target as Harris, and didn’t have to back a bunch of right appeasing votes with Biden but they’ll still make an effective target out of her.
The only fucking chance we have to get out of this is to push them hard AF to pick the best candidate they can and overwhelmingly vote for them, then do something about it when they say the results were fake and the real winner was orangespawn.
I dunno about that race vs gender analysis.
Obama sent them into a racist rage, and thats what trump actually campaigned on/what people actually voted on.
Worse still, thats what hes delivering, and conservatives are mostly happy enough to make sacrifices if it means the dark skinned marginalized people get hurt.
Everyone demanded Biden step down for someone better and younger. So he did.
and all that accomplished was that the left started shutting on her instead of Biden. as a non American watching it all unfold, race and especially gender was noticeably what turned people even on the left off of Kamala. And were talking before the gaza shit show turned into an election issue.
Again im not American, but your last election definitely felt racist and well, here we are. That there are still people on the left shitting on her as if they’re not living under the alternative is crazy. How can anyone in 2025 say she wouldn’t be better than this? Can’t explain it but with sexism
Harris had a honeymoon and then inexplicably decided to say she’d be exactly like Biden. He wasn’t doing well in the polls before his brain started erroring on live TV. The swap was the opportunity to disavow the unpopular things, but for some reason they decided the number one priority was making sure Joe got a respectful send off.
Even with everything you said the choice was clear. And not voting for Harris was as bad as voting trump
I voted for Harris. Not that it mattered because my state is solidly blue.
But voters aren’t big calculators. The people you lose in turnout are just running on vibes and competing with the couch. “My life sucks and you say you’re not going to change anything” is a bad vibe. Even if a rational person would say “but the other guy is going to make it worse”.
We’ve essentially had 4 of the last 5 elections be won by the candidate who campaigns on “change” and she rolled up as an incumbent saying it’s going to keep on exactly like it is. Unless things are fucking amazing that’s a really bad message.
You’re not wrong, but I shit on Kamala because she was a shitty centrist candidate, not because she was a woman. I would back AOC in a heartbeat.