As I said in my last story about the Senate vote on the stopgap spending measure, grab your popcorn as the Democrats implode in their anger at each other over the vote.
Some House Democrats were freaking out at the decision by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) saying he would vote for the CR, likely signaling other Senate Democrats would follow. Among the people flipping out over this was Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), also from New York.
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AOC is reportedly mobilizing her “base” to get other Senate Democrats to vote no.
Asked whether Senate Democrats need new leadership, Ocasio-Cortez avoided answering the question.
Privately, House Democrats are so infuriated with Schumer’s decision that some have begun encouraging her to run against Schumer in a primary, according to a Democratic member who directly spoke with Ocasio-Cortez about running at the caucus’ policy retreat. Multiple Democrats in the Congressional Progressive Caucus and others directly encouraged Ocasio-Cortez to run on Thursday night after Schumer’s announcement, this member said.
The member said that Democrats in Leesburg were “so mad” that even centrist Democrats were “ready to write checks for AOC for Senate,” adding that they have “never seen people so mad.”
When she was asked about it, AOC didn’t rule it out, and said that she was focused on the spending bill right now.
Oh, please. How transparent can you be? We all know what’s going on here with this story.
This is about trying to use the threat/hammer of that possibility to try to get Schumer to change his mind. They want him to see the threat and they think that will shake him. She’s probably not going to run against him, she is probably going to join the cattle call for president in 2028. If you thought the 2016 Republican field was crowded, the 2028 Democrat field is going to have a bunch of folks too. She thinks that’s where her future is. Thankfully, I think that the American people have more sense than that and she would go down in hilarious defeat.
But Schumer should recognize what this is all about, and not fall for the threat. He should tell them to take a walk.
However, it’s just another example of what Democrats will do, even in their own party to get what they want. They’ll pull all kinds of things out of the hat and even stomp all over their Senate leader.
It should also be noted that Ocasio-Cortez’s chances statewide are not quite the same as in her present very liberal district, as the NY Post’s Jon Levine indicated. The whole of New York is not quite as left as her district.
This would be a good way to end her career very quickly https://t.co/gIK0riTTKS
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) March 14, 2025
“That would be a good way to end her career very quickly,” he commented.
Republicans were just loving watching Democrats doing each other in. NRCC Comms Director Will Kiley summed it up.
https://t.co/j5lVP7XxsM pic.twitter.com/PkpMZBNo6q
— Will Kiley (@WillKiley) March 14, 2025
