Among the Democrats on the Capitol Hill, Senate leader Chuck Schumer hovered much more than the New York deputy Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator of Vermont, Bernie Sanders. But the progressive champions have the hearts of democratic voters across the country.
About three quarters of the Democrats have a “somewhat” or “very” favorable view of Sanders, while about half have a favorable view of Ocasio-Cortez. Compare them with Schumer, an establishment democrat, which is only positively viewed by about a third of the Democrats.
Almost the entire difference in the evaluation of the cheapness reviews between Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez can be explained by voters who said they don’t know enough to form an opinion from AOC. Their unfavorable ratings under Democrats were essentially the same, for both around 15%.
The 35-year-old Ocasio Cortez was an anonymous Sanders campaign a decade ago. Now she may be positioned the best to be the 83-year-old Sander’s successor on his advanced movement as a democratic party tries to position herself in Trump’s America.
But this role is associated with risks – President Donald Trump and Republicans have long made AOC a film, and some Democrats, progressive and moderately alike, have argued that they and Sanders are too disturbing and urge unrealistic political ideas.
Sanders and AOC have long presented their political relationship as family. She called him “Tio Bernie”, Spanish for “Uncle Bernie”. He recently held her hand in front of a huge amount on stage and said: tongue in the cheek: “I want to say a word about my daughter.”
A spokesman for Sanders, Anna Bahr, said that Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez are “allies, employees and friends who have established their relationship with a common vision”.
“In many ways, the congress member represents what Bernie has been using for decades: when the working class in this country stood against the firmly anchored political elite and to fight an economic system that is powered by uncontrollable greed,” said Bahr.
2018: AOC falls into the scene
Ocasio-Cortez returned to the Bronx after graduating from Boston University in 2011.
When she decided to run for an office herself, AOC had practically no money, but was supported by progressive organizations, including brand recent congress and judicial democrats, with connections to veterans of the presidential campaign of Sanders.
Sanders quickly congratulated his practically unknown Protégé in June 2018 after they defeated Rep. Joe Crowley, a member of the democratic leadership and potential future spokesman in primary school.
A month later, they worked together in Kansas for two progressive home candidates and sat down for a joint interview about CBS ‘”Face the Nation”.
“Two years ago we were both in St. Mary’s Park in the Südbronx. I was in the crowd with thousands of other people in all years, races, creeds, income. And two years later to be here that the revolution in Kansas is quite astonishing,” said Ocasio-Cortez during her joint appearance in Kansas.
2019: AOC supports Sanders about Warren
Ocasio-Cortez started her career as a congress in 2019 with the introduction of the Green New Deal. The ambitious proposal called for the change in the US economy through the elimination of fossil fuels and the creation of national health insurance and workplace guarantees as well as high-quality education and affordable living space. It was criticized by Republicans and many democrats because of their costs and the potential disorder caused by a restructuring of the economy.
It was just a non-binding resolution, but the Green New Deal became an vital topic in the Democratic primary school in 2020 and a lightning section for criticism of the right, which continued to consolidate Ocasio-Cortez as a power player in democratic politics.
By the end of 2019, Sanders fought in his second campaign of the White House. Much of the democratic field in particular Elizabeth Warren, Senator of Massachusetts-Hatte parts of his agenda and shared the progressive coalition.
Then Sanders suffered an incredible heart attack when he fought in Las Vegas. He needed a thrust and it came from Ocasio-Cortez.
She gave her confirmation during a rally in a park in her congress district. Later she fought with him in the decisive early states Iowa and New Hampshire and rose his nomination on the democratic national convention.
When the Sanders presidential campaign flows, Ocasio-Cortez, according to a year later, conflict whether it should be supported. Just a few months after her first term in the congress and already one of the best -known members of the house, she still felt uncomfortable to speak to crowds and still felt how to build and exercise their influence, and told the authors of “The Trice: Progressive, Center and the Future of the Democratic Party”. The book was published last year and aligned in Vanity Fair Magazine.
Corbin Trent, her first communication director in the house, threatened to stop according to the book when Ocasio-Cortez delayed the rally. He told the authors that he remembered a “big argument” about the episode. Even when she campaigned for Sanders, she feared that she would overshoot and her star power would evaporate as quickly as she arrived.
2023-24: Campaign for bidges and then Harris
After Sanders lost the democratic presidential regulations in 2020, they continued occasional joint appearances, where they campaigned for progressive candidates or discussed topics such as the early response to Covid-19, Union activism and climate change. When the election approached in 2024, they fought together for Vice President Kamala Harris, the democratic candidate, who replaced bidges after his debate performance.
2025: The ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ Tour
Trump’s return to the White House had the Democrats put down and searched for a path. Sanders replied with a number of rallies that he described as the “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, an attempt to arrange the reconstruction party to lead the working class in the existential struggle against wealthy elites.
After a few solo races, he invited AOC to come along.
As she had years ago, she introduced him as inspiration for her own political career. But she added more depth.
“I know that one of the things that inspired me for the first time for the first time when I saw Sen. Sanders on TV and I wiped tables and watched the television and said that every person in this country in March deserves healthcare as human law.” And I know that I first felt that we shouldn’t earn this. This should be granted to all of us because we are humans. I just want to thank him, and so we give him the earth -loving round of the applause. ”
Sanders has opposed to speak publicly about naming a successor and noticed that in 2028, when he turns 87, he would not run for the president again. But last month in Salt Lake City, he told a roaring crowd, he considered AOC as a family.
“Now I want to say a word about my daughter. I want to say a word about Alexandria and why what it is doing is so important,” he said. “Six years ago, what did you do? She was a waitress. But she looked around and she saw a society that was fundamentally unfair and in many ways for the people in the community in which she lived in New York.
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