Alelxandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic socialist congressional candidate who has spent weeks campaigning with fellow socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, on Thursday refused to endorse his prospective candidacy in the 2020 presidential race.
Ocasio-Cortez, 29, worked as an organizer for Sanders’ failed presidential campaign in 2016 before winning in a surprise upset over longtime establishment Rep. Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., in the state’s 14th Congressional District primary in May.
“She’ll see what the field looks like,” Corbin Trent, Ocasio-Cortez’s communications director, said in an interview with Politico. “She’s focused on 2018, [Bernie’s] focused on 2018. We’re all focused on 2018.”
For his part, the 77-year-old Sanders did not endorse Ocasio-Cortez’s run against Crowley. And in August, former President Barack Obama, in turn, initially declined to endorse Ocasio-Cortez even after her stunning primary win, underscoring the challenges facing progressives campaigning to the left of the Democratic Party establishment in hopes of taking their views mainstream. (Obama endorsed her earlier this month.)
Despite the back-and-forth snubs, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez have nonetheless teamed up in the past several months to tout socialist and far-left candidates throughout the country during the midterm season, to varying degrees of success read more
Best Meme of the day featured the Morpheus (Matrix) one saying if you take the letters in the word MOB and then move each letter forward to the next letter, what does it spell? (NPC) LMAO!!!!
As for Oscasio-Cortez, Bernie probably said don’t endorse me or I might lose in my home State of Vermont. Speaking of Bernie, how come they aren’t crying he is an old white male?
Bernie’s not Socialist enough. She’s waiting for Beet-o.
Does she know how to endorse?
Vietvet has it right.
(Her face reminds me of a piranha…)
She’s so stupid she thinks he shouldn’t run because he’ll break his hip
Shes looking for a VP slot with Beto.
Is that good or bad for crazy Bernie?
They’re socialists – they’ll work it out – like Stalin and Trotsky did.
But who gets to play whom? (or “Whom gets to play who?” or “Which gets to play what?” or … fuck it … you think Math is hard?)
izlamo delenda est …