AOC Backs Biden Amid Growing Calls for Him to Drop Out: ‘He Is in This Race and I Support Him’
AOC Backs Biden Amid Growing Calls for Him to Drop Out: ‘He Is in This Race and I Support Him’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez came out in support of President Joe Biden amid growing calls in the Democratic Party for Biden to drop out of the 2024 race.
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She knows she has little to gain personally from calling for Biden to drop out and potentially has a lot to gain if she sides with him and he ends up winning. She's a savvy political operator and deeply cynical.
She's savvy, but she's one of the least cynical of the bunch.
She saw how they stitched up Jamal Bowman and chose to protect her job. It's pretty damn cynical.
She's playing the cynical game of the Democratic party. I don't know if it will pay off.
But fuck she is WAY better than my gerrymandered representative who is a full corporate military machine.
So I don't exactly have a better representative to even reference let alone represent me. So I'll take that cynicism until I can get that changed.
You get the cynicism because you keep taking it, it really can't change as long as you're willing to settle.
Catch 22
I mean she isn't my representative so there isn't really a taking it or settling at work here. I'm trying to oust my own zionist rep where there's actually a shot.
I just get that she's up shit creek so I don't expect her to have a paddle.
Honestly I am more frustrated with the failure to leverage her support. The whole 'Squad' and Justice Democrats as a whole should be out laying out leverage to back Biden instead of the 'Welp, he's the nominee!' nonsense. If she isn't getting any support then I got some criticisms for more than just AOC here.
This seems kind of like the difference between Bernie and Warren in 2020. Both agreed that the primary was over and their previous foe was important to support. Bernie did an admirable job and brought the party together to support Biden. Warren did the same, but she also got a bunch of her personnel picks to staff various agencies. Unifying in a big allied tent is good, but the side you're unifying with should also be moving towards you as well. That's what makes it unity rather than just submission.
And I will fully admit that Bernie may have demanded something behind the scenes, and that Warren's people may simply have been more attractive because they were better prepared and vetted, but despite becoming the main progressive in the primary, the progressive wins in staffing sure look like Warren's doing.
Warren stayed in the race until after Biden cinched the nominatiom because her dropping out would have likely meant her support would have shifted for Sanders. That was the deal she got, like Buttigeig got a cabinet position for dropping out to back Biden for example. Same with Clyburn's kids getting appointments for SC.
It's definitely the right move for her at this point. If Biden steps aside (or dies) before the election, the Democrats aren't going to nominate someone who didn't back Biden. Publicly backing lets her stay on the team, and maybe one day have a shot at the Presidency herself (assuming we get more than four more years before fascism wins).
It's the right move for her career, anyway.