@Polymarket "As she considers 2028 presidential bid" is the biggest clickbait ever from Polymarket ๐คฃ she's made no such statement about ever running. This is like saying someone is moving to France just because they bought a cookbook of French cuisine.
@AOCtracker This is irrelevant because Schumer will almost certainly be retiring and not running for 2028 (he'll be 78 in 2028). He just wants 2 more years and to end it on a high note, rather than losing a ugly civil war primary against a bartender and becoming humiliated.
@LordMudkip73@mackenzie_bland Ossoff is a Senator, AOC is a house representative. There's a massive difference between the two in terms of how many people they're responsible for. A house rep is the equivalent of being in the kiddie pool, and being a Senator is the deep end. It's not even close.
@kaitlancollins Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Schumer and El-Sayed are in cahoots.. "go ahead and talk senate leadership change to the media to keep your base satisfied, but behind closed doors I am leader."
Good try. Trump may not have had political executive experience, but he had TONS of business executive experience.. managing a billion dollar global real estate empire, thousands of employees, multiple companies, worldwide scale. AOC's executive experience between business and politics is.. *checks notes*.. Managing about a dozen staff members, some community events, and bartending.
Go look up the amount of times someone has made the jump from House Rep to President in modern US history - I'll wait. There's a reason why it basically never happens. Presidency takes EXECUTIVE experience, which the House does not prepare someone for - not even close. Senate / Governor is the realistic next step before even THINKING about running for president.
If she wants to run for President she would need to take steps and become a Senator or Governor first.. Making the jump from House Representative to President is essentially a myth and doesn't happen, because being a president requires a lot of executive experience, which being a house rep does NOT give. It would be like going from a intern position at a fortune 500 company fresh out of college to getting promoted to CEO (makes no sense and never happens).
Making the jump from House to Presidency doesn't happen. There is a reason why it has never happened in the modern history of the country, and it isn't going to happen with AOC. It takes steps... Senate, or Governor would be her logical next step. But going from House to President literally doesn't fucking happen.
Are you insane? Someone making the jump from House Representative to President just doesn't happen. It has happened ONCE in the history of the country, and that was in literally 1880. Being president requires EXECUTIVE experience, RUNNING a state in some way (senators, governors). AOC hasn't fucking done shit in that regard, and there's a reason why making the jump from House to President doesn't happen.
He was up against a very weak and unlikable Republican candidate in Mike Rogers, in a historic blue wave macro environment where the generic ballot was like D+10, and El-Sayed still only managed to win by 7 points. That is awful, and a huge underperformance. He should have been able to win by a absolute minimum of 10.
@SRUnfiltered@termina_lives@MaximallyCenter They need to go with a safe candidate in 2028, not a gamble candidate. Unless you want another MAGA president all over again after 4 years of Trump.. Use your brain.
@Xer0Spin@AOCtracker Are you dumb? They're literally in the same state and she needs his favor, you can't just publicly oppose your own delegation leader from your own STATE. That would be career suicide for her. You need to be realistic.
No she wouldn't, even with how much the environment favors the Dems for 2028 she would absolutely not be a safe win. She would get absolutely destroyed by attack ads about being a radical socialist. Not only that but she's way too young and inexperienced, which just plays even more into the radical socialist thing. They'd have clips of her for days saying shit that would scare the average voter. She's the exact candidate the Republicans would be hoping the Dems run in 2028, because it's the only one where they have a chance. Literally ANY other candidate, even Newsom, the Dems have a lock on it pretty much.
@SenSanders Polls on singular issues are completely pointless and misleading because anyone is going to go "yeah sure medicare for all sounds good!" When it isn't actually attached to a candidate/person running at all.
I wasn't comparing about Medicare for all saying it's bad. I live in Canada, a country that literally is medicare for all and I love it. I was just saying that he can't run on that in Georgia because of how it is perceived to the general electorate in Georgia as being "socialist".
@CongaJoel2@CTVNews Just because what he's saying is spot on doesn't mean he's electable anymore by the average voter - that's his issue. His message isn't being heard anymore and he's tuned out by most people.
This is a terrible comparison because of the historic macro environment favoring the Dems this cycle, along with Trump also not being on the ballot. When you consider those 2 things, El-Sayed actually performed rather poorly only being able to win by 7 points when many other Dem candidates in swing states and red states were able to win by margins of 10-20 (ahem Talarico). El-Sayed should have had no issue winning by 12+ points yet he struggled and couldn't even crack double digits.
@_Leonorb@Beth_And_Taxes You don't run in purple states as a DSA member ๐คฃ idiot. That would be political suicide. He probably wants to be, and he's spoken at multiple DSA events, but literally can't become a member because being branded a DSA candidate would hemorrhage votes.