AOC Calls For New Leadership In Democratic Party
There are further signs that the Democratic party is starting to fracture. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just called for new leadership in the Democratic party. This comes after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer continue to have their grips on the leadership of the party.
AOC made the comments during an interview with The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill on Wednesday. They talked about several topics like Joe Biden’s transition team, which AOC branded as a “corporate revolving door.” “Well, you know, I do think that we need new leadership in the Democratic Party,” AOC said after Scahill mentioned Pelosi and Schumer.
“I think one of the things that I have struggled with—I think that a lot of people struggle with—is the internal dynamics of the House has made it such that there’s very little option for succession, if you will, you know?” she added.
“And I think it’s easy for someone to say, ‘Oh, well, you know, why don’t you run?’ But the House is extraordinarily complex. And I’m not ready. It can’t be me! I know that I couldn’t do that job,” AOC said, adding that the party does not seem to have any viable alternatives to Pelosi who have been serving in Washington for over 30 years now.
“And so even conservative members of the party, who think Nancy Pelosi is far too liberal for them, don’t necessarily have any viable alternatives, which is why whenever there’s a challenge, it kind of collapses. And that is, I think, the result of just many years of power being concentrated in leadership with a lack of real grooming of the next generation of leadership,” AOC went on to say.
This is not the first time that AOC has taken on Pelosi. AOC and the rest of the “Squad” disagreed with her over the bipartisan emergency funding package last year.
Pelosi also criticized them. “All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world. But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got,” she said.