Freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she isn’t excited about former Vice President Joe Biden running in 2020 as the Democratic nominee.
‘I don’t know,’ Ocasio-Cortez told Yahoo News when asked if she would support Biden, should he announce. ‘I mean I will support whoever the Democratic nominee is.’
She added that a potential Biden run ‘does not particularly animate me right now’ and she has ‘a lot of issues’ with that prospect.
Biden has not announced whether he’s running in 2020 yet, and if he were to enter the race he would be joining an already crowded Democratic field that includes 18 candidates already.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says a Joe Biden presidential run doesn’t ‘animate’ her
Biden has not said whether he will be launching a bid Democratic nomination, but has long been considering a run
Ocasio-Cortez has not officially endorsed any candidate, but she did serve as an organizer on Bernie Sanders campaign in 2016
‘I can understand why people would be excited by that – this idea that we can go back to the good old days with Obama, with Obama’s vice president,’ Ocasio-Cortez said. ‘There’s an emotional element to that, but I don’t want to go back. I want to go forward.’
The Democratic representative from New York said that she is ‘very supportive of Bernie’s run,’ but did not formally endorse him, or any other candidate.
Ocasio-Cortez was an organizer for independent Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 run for the Democratic nomination against Hillary Clinton.
‘I’m very supportive of Bernie’s run. I haven’t endorsed anybody, but I’m very supportive of Bernie,’ Ocasio-Cortez said.
She also specifically mentioned one other candidate: Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Sanders announced Feb. 19 that he would be launching his second consecutive bid for the Democratic nomination. He is an independent senator, and identifies as a Democratic Socialist
AOC also mentioned one other candidate, and said she liked what Sen. Elizabeth Warren brought to the table
Warren was one of the early announcers. She launched her presidential exploratory committee Dec 31, 2018 and officially announced she was running on Feb. 9, 2019.
‘I also think what Elizabeth Warren has been bringing to the table is truly remarkable, truly remarkable and transformational,’ Ocasio-Cortez said.
Warren’s campaign is lagging behind many other Democrats. She raised only $6 million in the first quarter of 2019 after promising not to engage in expensive fundraising events.
Former long-shot candidate – and mayor of South Bend, Indiana – Pete Buttigieg raised $7 million in the first quarter of the year.
Warren was the center of controversy last year when she released her DNA test results that showed she was only 1/1024 Native American after she made claims to aboriginal heritage when applying for a professorship.
She doubled-down on the claims when President Donald Trump began calling her ‘Pocahontas.’
Ocasio-Cortez became a breakout hit after winning the Democratic nomination against 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley in the 2018 midterm elections.
She has had growing popularity, especially among young progressive Democrats and those who supported Sanders, a self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist, in his run for the White House in 2016.
Despite this popularity, Ocasio-Cortez says she doesn’t know if she would consider running for for president in the future.
‘I really don’t know. I think about it every once in a while, but this is pretty hard already,’ Ocasio-Cortez said.
‘I just want to be most useful, and I’m not trying to kind of impose some personal ambition. I think that, if a window opens and I feel like I can do well, and do better, and offer more to people, then I would consider it. But I don’t have like a 10-year plan or a five-year plan or anything.’
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