AOC Turns On Democrats – Blasts them As ‘Incompetent’ After Election Losses

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) seems to have turned on the Democratic Get together as she blasted it as “incompetent” following some critical losses in final week’s election.

AOC Turns On Democrats

Ocasio-Cortez ripped the Democratic Get together for not placing progressives in high positions earlier than warning former Vice President Joe Biden that Democrats will lose massive within the 2022 midterms if he doesn’t choose radical left folks for highly effective positions. She instructed the New York Times that she doesn’t purchase the notion that progressive messaging across the Inexperienced New Deal and the Black Lives Matter motion led to the lack of Democratic congressional seats final week.

As an alternative, she argued that the actual subject at hand right here is that Democrats don’t know tips on how to correctly run a marketing campaign.

“There’s a purpose Barack Obama constructed a complete nationwide marketing campaign equipment exterior of the Democratic Nationwide Committee,” Ocasio-Cortez stated. “And there’s a purpose that, when he didn’t activate or proceed that, we misplaced Home majorities. As a result of the occasion — in and of itself — doesn’t have the core competencies, and no amount of cash goes to repair that.”

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AOC Doubles Down

In an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez claimed that no member of the Democratic Get together campaigned on “socialism or defunding the police on this common election.”

“I assume one of many issues that is essential is that’s to comprehend that very efficient Republican assaults are going to occur each cycle, so the query is how will we defend ourselves towards that?” she stated.

“If you happen to take a look at a few of these, you understand, a number of the arguments which are being superior, that defund the police or arguments about socialism damage, not a single member of Congress that I’m conscious of campaigned on socialism or defunding the police on this common election,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. 

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Ocasio-Cortez added:

“These have been largely slogans, or they have been calls for from activist teams that we noticed within the largest rebellion in American historical past round police brutality. So the query now we have is how can we construct a more practical Democratic operations that’s extra stronger and extra resilient to Republican assaults? I feel many areas we are able to level out in centralized Democratic operations which are terribly weak.

For instance, our digital campaigning could be very weak. That is an space the place Republicans are literally fairly sturdy. You recognize, President Trump, he received the 2016 election as we all know largely on digital organizing and technique. I imagine that many Republicans have been very efficient at digital organizing technique as nicely, whereas the Democratic Get together remains to be campaigning largely as if it’s 2005, and that was 15 years in the past. We are able to do higher. After we actually dig down and refine our operations, we may be extra resilient to those sturdy Republican assaults.”

Ocasio-Cortez has lengthy been often known as one of the crucial radical liberals in Congress. Clearly, that won’t be altering anytime quickly.

This piece was written by James Samson on November eight, 2020. It initially appeared in LifeZette and is utilized by permission.

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