By Nick Gilbertson. Media: Breitbart
The Hill on Friday floated Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as a potential contender for the 2028 Democrat Presidential nomination.
Amie Parnes, a senior congressional correspondent for The Hill, included Ocasio-Cortez as the last name on a list of seven Democrats who could be contenders for the nomination in 2024.
One Democrat strategist, speaking anonymously, told the outlet that Ocasio-Cortez can ācut through the BS and tell it like it is,ā adding she ādoesnāt talk like Washington.ā
However, Ocasio-Coretzās very progressive record could hinder her odds if she does run, according to some Democrats.
āShe and the āsquadā started pushing too hard, too fast,ā another strategist told the Hill. āD.C. doesnāt work that way. And our party doesnāt work that way. We need to get back to the basics.ā
Ocasio-Cortez represents a deeply progressive faction of the party, as the strategist pointed out, and Vice President Kamala Harris, the most progressive and radical presidential nominee in history, notably lost the election to President-elect Donald Trump earlier this month in a landslide.
Many, including some Democrat strategists, are pointing to the leftās radical progressive policies as factors behind the loss.
Democrat Strategist Julie Roginsky told CNNās Newsroom days after the election that Democrats have trouble communicating with ānormal people.ā She pointed to the leftās use of the term āLatinx,ā which was created to describe Latinos and Latinas without assigning sex, as one example:
You know, Iām going to speak some hard truths to my friends in the Democratic Party. This is not Joe Bidenās fault. Itās not Kamala Harris fault. Itās not Barack Obamaās fault. It is the fault of the Democratic Party in not knowing how to communicate effectively to voters. We are not the party of common sense, which is the message that voters sent to us. For a number of reasons, for a number of reasons, we donāt know how to speak to voters. When we address Latinos ā and language, and language has meaning ā we address Latino voters as Latinx, for instance, because thatās the politically correct thing to do, it makes them think that we donāt even live on the same planet as they do. When we are too afraid to say that, āHey, college kids, if youāre trashing a campus of Columbia University because you arenāt happy about some sort of policy and youāre taking over a university and youāre trashing it and preventing other students from learning that that is unacceptable.ā But weāre so worried about alienating one or another cohort in our coalition that we donāt know what to say when normal people look at that and say, āWait a second, I send my kids to college so they can learn, not so they can burn buildings and trash lawns.ā
After Harrisās loss, Ocasio-Cortez took a different route and pointed to āmisogynyā among voters as one potential factor behind Harrisās loss.
āThis race may not have been decided by any one individual factor, but misogyny is very, very real in this country,ā Ocasio-Cortez said during a November 6 live stream obtained by the Daily Caller.
āAs another widely known woman of color in office, you know, I knew that sexism and racism were real, but it was not until I got subjected to a national stage that I actually was shocked at how bad it is,ā she added.
Along with Ocasio-Cortez, Parnes tabbed Harris, Govs. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), JB Pritzker (D-IL), Josh Shapiro (D-PA), Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI), and outgoing Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as possible 2028 Democrat candidates.
