Independent Senator Bernie Sanders floated Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a potential presidential candidate in the 2028 elections, saying that even though it’s “her decision to make,” she is a “very, very good politician.”
Speaking to Axios, Sanders said that he has been “out on the streets with her” and noticed how she responds when people come up to her. “It’s so incredibly genuine and open.”
Ocasio-Cortez is seemingly positioning herself to run for higher office, whether it is challenging Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for his seat or to make a run for president.
Bernie’s problem was that he wasn’t a democrat. I voted for him but I know a lot of people, like my parents, who are center-left who simply refused to vote for somebody who didn’t caucus with democrats. These are the same people who are already looking at people like Newsom.
Edit for clarification: I understand that the Bernie is considered to caucus with the democrats because he generally votes with them. However, those who used the term disparagingly as I referenced above don’t believe independents can caucus with any party and used that as an excuse to refer to him as a DINO and not caucusing or being required to caucus.
Your parents aren’t “center-left” if they didn’t vote for Bernie.
It was the primary?
He always caucuses with Democrats. That’s how Dems held the Senate under Biden. Without Bernie they wouldn’t have had their 50. You don’t have to be in the party to be part of the caucus.
I get what you are saying but that’s not what the talking heads meant when they said that.
Those talking heads should probably learn what words mean before they used them then
I take “Caususes with” to generally means “votes more or less in line with” (I know that’s not really everything about it). What definition are you using?