I've never seen guff heaped on AOC directed against moderates who tried to replace Speaker Pelosi

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82. You're absolutely right, bigtree.

We’ve got a case of folks hearing what they want to hear and imagining context that supports a preconceived notion.

I really appreciate your diligence and dedication to fact instead of feeling. I, too, am still waiting for a quote that supports the claim.

AOC campaigned hard for Biden this year. She voted for Pelosi in 2018 for speaker. AOC rejected calls to ‘force’ Pelosi to hold an M4A vote.

Those are the facts.

Here is the full quote where it is clear she’s calling for changes to the way we groom future leaders so that we always have a deep bench of leaders to choose from. That’s smart strategy and is absolutely something we ought to be doing.

For the record I think Pelosi has been the most effective speaker in many years. We are lucky to have her. 🤷🏻‍♂️

"I do think that we need new leadership in the Democratic Party ... the internal dynamics of the House has made it such that there's very little option for succession," said Ocasio-Cortez, who is 31. "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."

"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," she continued. "And that is, I think, the result of just many years of power being concentrated in leadership with lack of ... real grooming of a next generation of leadership."