Ocasio-Cortez, finished a close second behind only former Vice President Kamala Harris in one recent poll measuring how Democrats feel about 2028.
  • burgermeister@lemm.eeEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I’d vote for AOC over Kamala, 100%.

    I mean, I still voted for Kamala, but I wasn’t excited about it.

  • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works
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    22 days ago

    It feels like everyone is desperate to loose, if someone came up with a contest where winning cost you a lot of money and was nothing but pain and suffering then the race would look exactly the same as it does between dema and reps.

  • FriendlyBeagleDog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    23 days ago

    Is this that shocking? Ocasio-Cortez seems to be the only politician left of tired milquetoast liberalism with both the public profile to sustain a campaign and demographic profile amicable to the position.

  • Hegar@fedia.io
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    23 days ago

    Anyone focused on who to run in a 2028 election is delusional. There’s absolutely no reason to think the regime will allow a 2026 election, let alone 2028.

    • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
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      23 days ago

      We are not even three months in and ice is already arresting citizens. Who knows what things will look like in another three months, let alone 18 months.

      • kreskin@lemmy.world
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        19 days ago

        Its a good point. Despite all the loss and carnage, and the disassembly of our government, at least the dems accomplished screwing the progressives, and continue to do so. They are not sitting on their hands doing nothing.

  • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 days ago

    As much as I really really like AOC, I wonder if the rest of America isn’t ready to elect a woman. We’ve had two female candidates and both times we got Trump. Granted the first time was Hillary and I held my nose to vote for her (now I’d vote for a fresh dog turd before I’d vote Trump, but something about the whole Hillary thing just rubbed me the wrong way, especially with what happened to Bernie), and the second time they really screwed up at the last minute with Joe. I guess I’m just skittish at this point.

    I really hope I’m wrong, because AOC is just a hair behind Bernie in my opinion and I love Bernie. I think she’d be a really intelligent take no shit leader and I am so desperate for that right now.

    • blandfordforever@lemm.ee
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      23 days ago

      I personally believe that a woman could make a great president. I also believe that America is much more sexist and racist than many of us would like to admit.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
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      23 days ago

      Both candidates ran as conservatives that attacked the left side of the Democratic party more than they did Trump’s policies. It’s not because they were women, it’s the policies they stood for.

  • meep_launcher@lemm.ee
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    22 days ago

    Welcome to American politics, when the 2028 election begins in 2024 and the 2028 primary began in 2020.

    I’m so tired.

      • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        22 days ago

        I’m sure they’ll help. Don’t have to set the thing in motion, just give it a little push now and then to keep the conversation moving in the direction you want it to go.

    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      The year is 2028

      AOC wins the Democratic nomination

      Lemmy immediately ridicules AOC as a shitlib centrist and says that to save democracy, we must protest vote for [insert name here].

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    If the Dems were smart, they’d make the runner-up in the primary their vice presidential candidate. I don’t know why they never seem to do this. I’m not a “Bernie bro”, but Clinton probably would’ve won if Bernie had been her VP.

    • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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      23 days ago

      Because there is a perception that the VP should “balance” the ticket in some ways for the general. Its why Obama had Biden, why Biden had Harris, and why Harris had Walz (idr Clinton’s). They try to calculate about what demographics are missing from the presidential candidate and get someone who fits enough of them that the racism/sexism/ageism and therefore lack of votes towards a candidate for those reasons isn’t the reason they lose. It’s why Obama had Biden, McCain had Palin, etc. The facist cult doesn’t have to bother because their voters don’t care.