While the idea of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as president has some in the GOP laughing, it has others warning Republicans of the threat she poses.
The fact of the matter, according to former Trump Treasury official Monica Crowley, is that Ocasio-Cortez is very popular and also very new media friendly, giving her an enormous advantage in elections.
Crowley made this point during an appearance this Friday on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.”
Listen:
The discussion began with fill-in host Lisa Boothe noting that a number of Ocasio-Cortez’s own 2024 election voters had also voted for President-elect Donald Trump, a Republican.
“She did this Instagram thing where she reached out to her voters and split-ticket voters for Trump, asking them why they split the ticket,” Boothe said. “And a lot of them said they like her accessibility.”
“She’s doing these Instagram Lives, and we saw that with Donald Trump as well – being willing to sit down with Joe Rogan, going on X, doing these three-hour interviews. So I don’t know. Is it fair to rule her out, or is there something there for her?” she then asked.
“Well, you know, she has tremendous grassroots support,” Crowley replied. “And it is, to the point that you’re making, which is the accessibility, but also she was an early adopter of social media, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc. So she’s connecting directly to voters.”
The only good news, the former Trump administration official continued, is that Ocasio-Cortez is a rabid socialist/communist-light, and the country just made it abundantly clear in the 2024 presidential election that they want none of that.
Did Dems’ electoral spanking knock the pronouns right out of AOC? X users notice something missing https://t.co/514Pe9nVk6
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) November 15, 2024
“The lesson of this last 2024 election and Donald Trump’s landslide mandate victory is that the country has had enough of the radical left, it’s had enough of socialism, it’s had enough of cancel culture and ‘wokeness,’ and it rejected roundly all of those things,” Crowley explained.
“So I don’t think in four short years the country is going to say we need more communism. I don’t think that that is going to be the choice that they are going to make,” she added.
Fair enough.
It’s at this point that Crowley issued her warning.
“However, just a word of warning to the Republicans, to my party: Do not underestimate AOC,” she said. “She’s young, she’s vibrant, she’s attractive. I think she’s wrong on everything, but she does have real grassroots support.”
“And all of the energy and activism in the Democrat Party remains with the revolutionary left, of which she is a part. So, every time the Republicans have underestimated the Democrats, we ended up with Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. So let’s not do it again in four years,” she added.
As previously noted, when word of a possible presidential run by Ocasio-Cortez emerged, most conservative social media users immediately assumed she’d be dead on arrival (DOD).
Look:
Laughable
— Ernesto (@ErnestoMtAz) November 29, 2024
Vance would tear her apart in a debate
— Political Rock (@political_rock) November 29, 2024
AOC would get absolutely demolished. It wouldn’t matter who the GOP ran.
— Conservative Forum (@CForumGA) November 29, 2024
DOA, there is no way the American people would ever allow this low life slimebag hold the highest office in the nation!
— jacob upchurch (@jrupchurch80) November 30, 2024
AOC is DOA. But let her run! She can hand democrats another devastating loss. She is as stupid as Kamala, only a little younger and marginally cuter. The best thing she has going for her is she doesn’t cackle. But is she a leader? Not even qualified to be a girl scout leader.
— Lucie (@elemare) November 30, 2024
Amazingly enough, at least one person on the left appears to agree with them: Pollster and strategist Doug Schoen, who previously served as an advisor to former President Bill Clinton.
“I believe the Democratic Party needs to move to the center on cultural issues and on fiscal issues and be more fiscally disciplined, and AOC represents the opposite,” he told Boothe on Friday.
“I think if she runs, it would be a disaster for the party, and I think her chance of getting nominated would be nil,” he added.
Schoen has a prior record of calling out Ocasio-Cortez over her more dumb and inflammatory remarks.
Case in point:
Doug Schoen…the 1 Democrat to call out AOC’s idiotic claim that detaining illegal immigrants at the border is equal to concentration camps. pic.twitter.com/x9smTCUgLA
— Paul Inouye (@pinouye50) June 19, 2019
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Author: Vivek Saxena
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