AOC: Schumer, Jeffries ein schlechtes Beispiel, indem er Mamdani nicht unterstützt
https://www.commondreams.org/news/aoc-zohran-mamdani
AOC: Schumer, Jeffries ein schlechtes Beispiel, indem er Mamdani nicht unterstützt
https://www.commondreams.org/news/aoc-zohran-mamdani
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> „We have a Democratic nominee,“ Ocasio-Cortez told reporters Thursday. „Are we a party that rallies behind our nominee or not?“
> The congresswoman pointed to 2020, when she supported former President Joe Biden once he was the nominee, even though „he was not my preferred candidate in the primary,“ and last year, when she supported Vice President Kamala Harris after Biden dropped out of the race against President Donald Trump. She explained that she did so „because I am a Democrat and what we do is that we use our primaries to settle our differences, and once we have a nominee, we rally behind that nominee.“
> „If an individual doesn’t want to support the party’s nominee now, it complicates their ability to ask voters to support any nominee later, whether that is mayoral, presidential, what have you,“ she said. „And so I think, for the good of the party, we must put our differences aside and support our party’s nominee.“
> Asked if she’s specifically frustrated with Schumer and Jeffries, she responded: „This isn’t about personalities… I think that we’re in a moment of a Trump administration, the stakes are high, and I want, of course, to see our party come together and stick together, despite our differences.“
But what would Joe and Eileen Bailey think?
Can’t wait to see this comment section full of „Democrats prefer Trump to Progressives“. Despite AOC specifically calling out only a couple of people, Mamdani having many endorsements from Democrats, and official DNC accounts posting pro Mamdani content.
We don’t need to frame the entire Democratic party as being in opposition to Mamdani when even this article makes the case that that isn’t happening.
democrats need to unite under mamdani and stick together
instead there’s infighting. stop it. get with the program bud
He won the Democrat primary. You need to endorse him or you risk fracturing the party. I don’t care if he has policies you don’t like. The voters made their choice.
It also basically proves that, „Vote blue no matter who“ only swung one way and will make cooperation between both wings of the party harder in the future.
The old guard must go. They have failed and look where we are now.
Democratic leadership is very disappointing.
Schumer and Jeffries set bad examples, period.
Honestly, who cares? Mamdani is popular. As long as the Dems vote blue no matter who, he will win and be the next mayor of New York. It’s inevitable. Who really gives a shit if Schumer and Jeffries are stupid and only get on the Mamdani train after it’s left the station?
Blue no matter who cuts both ways. Yes, we should support Mamdani even though he’s a young radical whose ideas are new and a little scary (for some folks). Yes, we should also support the dinosaurs and moderates that support Dem positions. If we support Mamdani but then don’t support Jeffries because he doesn’t pass the purity test…doesn’t that prove Jeffries right in his skepticism of Mamdani? We can vote for Jeffries because he’s a Dem and he’s better than a Rep and still think he’s a dumbass for not getting behind Mamdani. Forcing them to share representation of the same city and the same party is actually the best way to make sure Jeffries gets on board.
People complain about infighting because they other guy doesn’t agree with me and therefore he sucks. And that’s probably true! But also, if we’re trying to end the careers of committed but imperfect Dems like Schumer and Jeffries simply because they aren’t as far left as we’d like them to be, then that’s not really helping the cause.
This is a ridiculous take. Schumer’s endorsement would hurt Mamdani. He’s dominating the polls. He’s only running to be mayor of one city. Why is anyone making demands that certain Democrats endorse him?
Honestly not endorsing is good for Mamdani the dem brand is toxic and part of his appeal is being outside the establishment
„Vote Blue no Matter Who“ they said. Well, then live by it. The NYC voters made our choice loud and clear.
Corporate Dems need to fuck right off
Schumer and Jeffries need to be removed ASAP
For however evil and stupid we blame the Republicans they seem to understand something so fundamental that the Democrats don’t.
What matters is winning the election and having control. Once you have the nominee go with them and win the seat. That’s what matters.
democrats are the party of getting in front of any real progressive policy from ever passing int his country. beating republicans has always been optional.
Recognizing that NYC is important just due to its sheer population size and cultural cache, sure they should endorse him. But, it’s not some great snub not to have done it at this point. It’s the first week of September. If I’m Mamdani, I want it to be in the news that „Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer endorse me over Cuomo“ like a week before the election, so it’s fresh in everybody’s minds, not damn near two months out so the people who aren’t super paying attention have time to forget.
And honestly, sentiments against the establishment Dems is are so bad right now, it might actually be to his benefit for them not to say anything this far out. Certainly you can try and flip it as „look see, even the establishment likes me and my policies!“ But like…. when’s the last time you’ve heard a positive opinion about Chuck Fucking Schumer?
Jefferies is such a fucking loser.
I remember before Feinstein died she told a bunch of kids if they didnt like her environmental policy to vote her out. Turns out they don’t actually like it when you do that, gee wonder why.
The people have spoken, Mandan is the democratic candidate, and now the “vote blue no matter who” establishment crowd needs to shut up and vote blue.
Blue no matter who has proven to be a nonsense phrase. This was their audition and they’ve proven it was just a phrase to suppress progress. Fuck em.
Now those two decide to act as if they had a spine. You can see the aipac coming out of them like sweat. This is Israel speaking through both of them.
If you are in their districts. Read Al Jazeera’s headline every day (they tabulate the deaths of every gaza citizen every day) until they can be voted out of office.
Mamdani is an Arab. Aipac isn’t cool with that. That’s why these two vichy shills are not supporting him.
What happened to vote blue no matter who?
Schumer and Jeffries need to go the fuck away. They’re taking up valuable space from relevant new blood.
Democrats are their own worst enemy. As a democrat, I’m disheartened by news on by sides of the isle. Feels like there’s never going to be any humanity or morals representing me
Schumer and Jeffries need to get the boot and get voted out in the primaries. We deserve better than these weak ass do-nothings
Both AOC and Bernie endorsed him back in June
Her own district voted for Trump. Can’t see them voting for a socialist.
Schumer’s got to go, he’s a DINO–Democrat In Name Only.