The question is does she want to run for senate…
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Chuck’s up for re-election in 2026, and the presidency isn’t up until 2028…
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True, but she still might not have an interest in either office, as she might feel she can do more good closer to the people? I don’t know, though.
I still think a Walz-AOC 2028 ticket might be a winning combo… but do either of them want to do that, or do they think they can do more good in other ways.
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One big advantage of the Senate is that you aren’t spending your whole term in office campaigning for your next term. House seats are just so short.
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The google tells me that only one sitting house member became President- Garfield.
But three sitting Senators have. Harding. Kennedy and Obama.
The Senate seems the path with a better track record. But who knows?
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Yeah, that’s true enough, but it’s also further away from the people she’s representing now, who are her neighbors. New York state is huge, of course, and representing that space is probably very different than representing a congressional district. I think it just depends on how she feels she can be most effective for her constituents.
I don’t know if she’s made any comments about her plans for the next couple of election cycles either way, though.
Yeah, no doubt. But does she want to do that, or is it us who want her to do that (run for president).
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The tour with Bernie is probably a pretty good indication. She has supporters far outside her district. She has supporters far outside NY. There’s also the very important aspect of allowing room for up-and-comers. If AOC doesn’t move one, what happens to the next AOC? There needs to be development planning for that next generation.
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Could be, but it could also be just doing what the moment needs, too. It’s pretty clear Bernie is not planning on running again, and he’s out there doing this. They both seem committed to the bottom-up mode of politicking, and I think more than anything else, that is about not assuming you are the center, but that the people are… so, I’d guess it depends on a groundswell for her candidacy.
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I know I do. Even if she didn’t win the primary; she would push the direction of the party in the right direction.
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Sure, it could certainly help do that.
So far, I don’t know if anyone is floating to the top for a democratic nominee, mainly because the party seems too concerned with calling each other out for who got it more wrong…
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There are so few progressives in Congress, that I selfishly kind of want the ones currently there to stay put. Since AOC’s attempt at a House Dem leadership roll got cut off by Pelosi, though, she may have decided she needs to move on. Honestly, I’m ok either way. If she decided to move to Missouri and run for anything, I would vote for her. I’m a fan.
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I just saw in the news today that Crawford won the election by a 10-point margin, gaining vote share in every one of the 72 Wisconsin counties vs. Trump’s share in 2024. And the Republicans are all either in denial or eating their own as a result:
Not often that I agree with conservative talk radio hosts.
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I’m tellin’ y’all… Walz-AOC in 2028!
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They were not all hecklers, luckily. I heard one of the loudest voices scream “He doesn’t have fucking bone spurs. Shut your fucking mouth!”, evidently at the hecklers. Also, a good point made by the host that if they’re angry he didn’t have a combat role then they should be angry at Vance, too.
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Even if he had served in combat the hecklers would have just moved the goalposts.
“Yeah you were in Afghanistan, but you weren’t in Helmand province”
"Yeah you were in Helmand province but you weren’t there during Operation Khanjar
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“Yeah but you weren’t standing next to me at 3pm on 12 August 2009 when I tripped on a rock and nobody caught me”
John Kerry had three purple hearts but he was painted as someone who avoided combat.
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Yeah, I remember that. Especially stuff like the disgusting swift boat veterans against Kerry rubbish. It’s almost like they had the candidates mixed up, the actual rich kid Vietnam veteran running against the rich kid draft dodger. But even then facts didn’t matter that much when they got in the way of ideology.
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Yep. Republicans always have the loudest mouths using the biggest (corporate-provided) microphones.
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