When asked by reporters if Schumer should remain the minority leader, Ocasio-Cortez responded: "I think what is so important for folks to understand is that this problem is bigger than one person. And it actually is bigger than the minority leader in the Senate. You had eight Senate Democrats who coordinated…their own votes on this as well as you have two retiring members, many of them who are also up in several cycles from now, with the hope that people are going to forget this moment
The New York lawmaker added, “A leader is a reflection of the party, and Senate Democrats have selected their leadership to represent them. And so, the question needs to be bigger than just one person. We have several Senate primaries this cycle—I know I’m being asked about New York, that is years from now—I have to remind my own constituents because they think that this election is this year. We actually do have Senate elections this year, and my hope is that people across this country actually participate in their primary elections and selecting their leadership.”
Schumer’s leadership has come under fire following a pivotal Senate vote in which eight Democrats joined Republicans to end the government shutdown, defying his recommendations. Representative Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, was among those openly stating, “Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced.”
To be clear, Peter Thiel’s mouthpiece was demanding he “immediately resign” not that he be primaried.
Kahnna calling for Schumer to immediately resign in the middle of the Epstein investigation seems suspicious as fuck considering Peter Thiel is part of that investigation and that is one area where Schumer has actually been somewhat proactive.
Most Democrats are unhappy with the decision to cave, but AOC and Bernie have given almost the exact same answer to this question, and it hasn’t been that Schumer must resign immediately. It’s that this is a bigger problem than one person.
I hope to see her as president or vice president in 2028, but if not then she would make a kick ass Senate leader. I trust her and I hope people will remember to do the same when “progressive” imposters try manipulate the public using the label they’ve paid the media to give them.
Khanna also wanted the party to kiss elon musk’s nazi ass back when he had that falling out with trump back in early June.
AOC will never be Senate Leader. That’s not on offer whatever path she takes.
I don’t think calling for resignation or not has anything to do with the Epstein files, but the same collective action problem that made few people publicly call for Biden to resign even though most Democratic voters wanted change. The people who decide these things aren’t the voters and if you call for an establishment leadership figure to be purged and they aren’t, you’re in for a load of shit from them.
Like with Biden, Bernie and AOC also probably expect any replacement to be the same type of person playing the same sort of games. Schumer is particularly bad at politics, but his replacement won’t be someone who might displease donors.