AOC goes after Dem House leadership for backing incumbent Cuellar

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42. She's wrong. Until replaced, Cuellar is the choice of the people, 9 times.

Representative government is a core, bedrock principle of our government. Our party leaders accept the choices the people send to congress, in all but the most impossible cases.

Those who don't believe the will of the people should prevail don't believe in representative democracy.

That some among the self-labeled "Progressives" have a problem with the representative democracy is understandable given those are significantly less than 10% of the population. Others should not be fooled into imagining that is a principled position. Anti-democratic tactics are common among zealots democracy doesn't work for, such as attempting to continually slandering Democrats, attempting to subvert the popular vote, and voting for the opposition, as many did for tRump, to spite and defeat Democrats.

And as JohnSJ says.

Cuellar's anti-abortion position, if not shared by a majority of his voters now, may finally make the difference. He's been holding onto a lead by a nose.