Regarding NBC's recent piece on AOC and Dem's changing perspectives on her... [View all]

[Pluvious]

Yesterday 34,000 people showed up in Denver for Bernie and AOC

( cue Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" )

From Dushan's FB post a few days ago...

NBC is out with a story that many Democrats in the House are starting to view Alex Ocasio-Cortez in a different light recently as a leader of the party: “As Democrats scramble to find an authentic and effective messenger for the second Trump admin, there is a growing desire to elevate AOC within the party in some way, according to interviews with a dozen Democratic lawmakers, aides and strategists — especially after last week’s government spending showdown left the base enraged.

… The article also highlighted AOC’s tour with Bernie Sanders, which started tonight in swing districts and on college campuses in AZ, NV and CO that are expected to draw massive crowds. Sanders’ advisor Faiz Shakir: “She would walk into any event in America and draw a significant crowd. Whether they like her or not it doesn’t even matter. There are people interested in what she has to say.”

… From the article:

“Some of her Democratic colleagues once viewed AOC as an attention seeker who was more interested in social media stardom than substantive policy. Others believed she fell into the job only accidentally after her upset primary win at age 28 and were skeptical she would be around for long. But now Democrats across the ideological spectrum are starting to recognize that AOC can grab the spotlight in a way that few others in the party can.”

Rep. Jamie Raskin:
“She’s got boundless promise as the party leader in our country. But the question is who will have the language to express to America where we need to go. That’s a tall order for anybody, but I would say she’s definitely a contender. I don’t know that anybody else seems to be a more obvious young candidate for that position.”

AOC recently made a presentation to her colleagues in the House on how to use social media to reach voters. She showed them a video she made which just got over 2 million views, causing one Dem Rep in attendance to remark: “Two million people? If you added all of mine up together and multiplied them by 10, I wouldn’t get to 2 million.”

She's doing some things a leader must do, trying to educate her colleagues to get them caught up with modern tools she's learned to leverage effectively, and help convey her vision of the current perceptions voters have.

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