AOC Wants To Challenge Schumer!

Ocasio-Cortez considering challenging Chuck Schumer.

 

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Had the American people voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) as the Democratic presidential nominee and he won the presidency, yeah I could see this. However, even New Yorkers are tired of the showboating and activism from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). She and the so-called Squad are inviting themselves to primary challenges from Democrats who are sick and tired of the extremism within the party. 

They don't want any of the Rep. Marjorie Karen Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Karen Gaetz (R-FL) type of candidates in the Democratic Party.

Ocasio-Cortez hasn't ruled out an opportunity to primary Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the current Majority Leader of the Senate in 2022.

Schumer annoys me a lot. Yes. He really does. He is a staunch supporter of Israel. He opposes the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. He is pro-war and possibly Islamophobic. He is a center-left politicians who is still an old school type of negotiator. Schumer is polarizing.

It's possible that Ocasio-Cortez beats Schumer but it's going to be a challenge that gives her a 25% chance of victory.

Asked by CNN’s Dana Bash if she is considering a campaign against her fellow New Yorker next year, Ocasio-Cortez said she had not seriously considered it, but also stopped short of ruling out a run.

Sen Majority Leader Chuck Schumer came outside to congratulate Rep. Cori Bush and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the news broke. “You did this,” Schumer excitedly said to them. pic.twitter.com/K8FSS0juho

— Jessica Dean (@jessicadean) August 3, 2021

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer meets with Rep. Cori Bush, Rep. Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez and other progressives on the steps of the U.S. Capitol currently protesting the eviction moratorium. pic.twitter.com/KBk65k0WRy

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“I know it drives everybody nuts. But the way that I really feel about this, and the way that I really approach my politics and my political career is that I do not look at things and I do not set my course positionally,” Ocasio-Cortez told Bash in “Being…AOC,” the first episode of the new CNN series “Being…” that airs Monday night at 9 p.m. ET.

“And I know there’s a lot of people who do not believe that. But I really – I can’t operate the way that I operate and do the things that I do in politics while trying to be aspiring to other things or calculating to other things,” she said in an interview in her district in late June.

The prospect of a showdown between the New Yorkers next year has loomed over Capitol Hill for some time, but Ocasio-Cortez has not made any moves to set herself up for what would be a blockbuster campaign. And unlike other moderate congressional leaders, Schumer – first elected in 1998 – has steered clear of criticizing his party’s left flank – at home or in Washington. In New York, he has aligned himself closely with progressives and has on Capitol Hill, along with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, repeatedly called on President Joe Biden to unilaterally cancel all student debt, a top progressive priority.

But with the compromises baked into the bipartisan infrastructure deal rankling progressives, Schumer’s ability to bring home, through a party-line vote, a separate and more expensive reconciliation package demanded by progressives could make or break his standing with the party’s left flank.

Ocasio-Cortez noted that she and Schumer, who has never faced a serious primary challenge in part because he is so deeply attuned to his constituency, have been on the same side of some of the major legislative fights in Washington this year.

“For what it’s worth, Senator Schumer and I have been working very closely on a lot of legislation and that, to me, is important,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “And so, we shall see.”

The second-term House member is no stranger to longshot primary bids. In 2018, she unseated then-Rep. Joe Crowley, who had been touted as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s potential successor atop the Democratic House Caucus. Her victory touched off a string of insurgent progressive primary successes and, later on, the birth of the “squad,” the all-female group of leftist congressional firebrands.

As to whether she might have ambitions that go beyond the Senate, and all the way to the White House, Ocasio-Cortez told CNN that looking that far into the future, for now at least, would compromise her ability to do her current job.

“I struggle with this because I don’t want little girls watching or anything like that to lower their sights or anything in that direction. But for me, I feel that if that was in the scope of my ambition, it would chip away at my courage today,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “I think what happens a lot in politics is that people are so motivated to run for certain higher office that they compromise in fighting for people today. And the idea is that if you can be as clean of a slate or as blank of a slate, that it makes it easier for you to run for higher office later on.”

The lawmaker is one of the least productive in the House of Representatives. It would be interesting to see the 30-year old lawmaker make a play for the U.S. Senate. 

I believe that she would not be well liked in upstate New York. 

It's a damn shame that with all the talents she's got, all she wants to be is an activist. 

Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) have opened themselves to a primary challenger.

Bush is on the top list of candidates who could be defeated in the primary. Then Tlaib and Ocasio-Cortez are next on the list of primary candidates in danger of defeat. Omar and Pressley are considered slightly favorable to win their primary,

Ocasio-Cortez has a track record of endorsing the losing candidates this cycle. She endorsed Maya Wiley and Nina Turner in their ill fated bids for mayor and U.S. Congress.