Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Refused To Campaign More For Bernie Sanders

[RandySF]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) turned down repeated requests from Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign to appear at events promoting the Vermont senator’s candidacy in recent weeks, according to three people familiar with the discussions.

After the Iowa caucuses, Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir asked Ocasio-Cortez to stump for Sanders in New Hampshire, according to the sources. The campaign prepared a model schedule to highlight the kind of popular support she would expect if she attended, one of the people familiar with the talks said.




https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5e6ade51c5b6bd8156f44356

[comradebillyboy]

1. More from the linked article

"At a rally in Ames on Jan. 25, Ocasio-Cortez delivered a speech in which she failed to mention Sanders’ name ― an omission that Fox News noticed and highlighted. She also encouraged those in attendance to tip off people about the presence of immigration enforcement authorities in their communities to help undocumented immigrants evade detention.

As Vanity Fair first reported in February, Shakir communicated to Ocasio-Cortez his dissatisfaction over her remarks about alerting the presence of immigration authorities. While Sanders has sought to scrap and restructure the ICE agency in its current form, his campaign has been trying to avoid the impression that it was encouraging noncooperation with federal law as it exists, according to one source.

After that, Ocasio-Cortez ― already annoyed with the campaign’s Jan. 23 decision to publicize the endorsement of controversial podcast host Joe Rogan ― grew less interested in helping Sanders’ campaign, according to the source. After her last event in Iowa on Jan. 26, she did not return to the trail for Sanders until 16 days later, at the New Hampshire rally featuring The Strokes."

[RandySF]

3. I thought Sanders 2020 was more "woke" than 2016.

[Cha]

20. This says she was in Ann Arbor..

https://www.democraticunderground.com/12967275

[still_one]

2. From what I have read she seems to be much more realistic than the Sanders campaign is

[Turin_C3PO]

5. I like her.

She has her issues but, in my mind, she goes about changing the party in the right way. She works to change the party from the inside, as a Democrat rather than an independent. Plus, she supported Pelosi’s leadership when some “progressives” were urging her otherwise.

Of the squad, I have much more of a problem with Rashida Tlaib, who booed Hillary Clinton.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. I do think that at her young age, she recognizes that this movement has to work within the

Democratic party. Sadly, it's a lesson that Bernie couldn't grasp because of so much bitterness. That's my opinion.

[still_one]

10. Perhaps, but your assessment about working within the party is right on target

United we win, divided we fall

[Cha]

21. But she was on fox news yesterday not being & this says

she was in Ann Arbor on Sunday the 8th of March..

https://www.democraticunderground.com/12967275

[LakeArenal]

4. So... where the wind blows warm...

She’s there.

[BlueIdaho]

6. She's learning...

At any given moment every politician has a given amount of political capital. It’s important for them to spend it wisely.

[Cha]

22. She was in Ann Arbor on the 8th of March..

https://www.democraticunderground.com/12967275

[Gothmog]

7. Another sign that sanders campaign is essentially over

[pampango]

11. Yes. And AOC moving on from Bernie will help convince his supporters that it is time

to admit defeat and move on to the general election supporting Biden. AOC's 'message' here "I have fought hard for Bernie, as have many of you, but it is time to face reality. 'Win with humility; lose with class.' Showing some class and humility will go far in bringing Democrats together."

[William769]

13. ...

[Demsrule86]

16. I appreciate this thanks...we need to move on to the General.

❤❤❤❤+

[question everything]

8. She know which side her bread is buttered

[showblue22]

12. I think she wanted to endorse Warren but Bernie had a heart attack

and she felt sorry for him.

[W_HAMILTON]

14. Wasn't this around the same time that there were rumors that the Sanders people...

...weren't happy with her campaigning because they felt she wasn't focusing enough on Sanders? I actually went and looked for the article I'm referring to and was able to find it easily enough; here is the part I was referring to:

…

Following Ocasio-Cortez’s three-day stint, Sanders’s campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, texted AOC’s campaign manager to express his dissatisfaction with aspects of her performance, according to a source familiar with the exchange. Specifically, the Sanders campaign was miffed that Ocasio-Cortez didn’t mention Sanders by name when she closed out a campaign event at the University of Iowa on a Friday night at the end of last month...

Taken from: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/02/aoc-bernie-sanders-campaign-iowa

Given that Sanders did the same thing to Hillary back in 2016 (i.e., """campaigning for her""" without ever even mentioning her name during his same 'ole stump speech), the irony is especially delicious!

[Politicub]

15. Her instincts are impeccable. She is the future.

[empedocles]

26. Impeccable instincts for her future?

[HarlanPepper]

17. Yet now she's going around saying Michigan was stolen from Bernie

One day she feels one way, the next she feels the other.

Let’s be clear: Katie Porter is the star of that class, and it’s not even close.

[Cha]

18. I know.. what I was thinking of. Also I

thought I read she was just at a rally with BS?

I just googled.. this link says she was at Ann Arbor.. so what's with the OP?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/12967275

[Cha]

23. I noticed too.

[Cha]

24. According to this AOC was in Ann Arbor on March 8, 2020

https://www.democraticunderground.com/12967275

[LizBeth]

25. AOC should have gotten behind Warren instead of a man just had a heart attack. That was ultimately

what sucked the air out of Warrens campaign. AOC likes Warren and Warren helped her a lot when she first moved into her house position. AOC chose wrong.