‘That’s Bullsh*t!’ AOC Slams Democratic Colleagues, Drops BOMBS in Impassioned Defense of Biden

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) dropped a series of bombs and made an impassioned case for keeping President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket during a livestream on Thursday.

Ocasio-Cortez raised a number of points in favor of sticking with Biden, with her first being that Republicans might raise legal challenges to the hypothetical replacement nominee’s ballot access.

Then in an aside, she slammed those members of her colleagues who have been leaking to the press to weaken Biden’s position.

“What I see right now, and I want you all to know, is that over the last several weeks, there have been lots of Democrats who have been giving little anonymous quotes to the press, to some journalists, to print, and I’m not here to knock the press on it, I’m here to knock my colleagues on it. Because to me, I think that’s and I’m sorry — I’m going to say it because it’s after midnight — that’s bullshit,” she argued. “I’m not coming for the people who have made a public statement and put their name on it. Like, Lord knows, I’ve done plenty of that myself. I’m talking about people who are too scared to say what they want to say in public, but somehow not afraid to say what they want to say to a journalist so long as they promise not to use their name. That’s a bunch of horseshit!”

Next, she revealed that there is no guarantee that the Democratic Party would consolidate around Vice President Kamala Harris .

“If you think that there is consensus among the people who want Joe Biden to leave that Kamala, that they will support Kamala, Vice President Harris, you would be mistaken,” said Ocasio-Cortez. “A lot of them are not just interested in removing the president. They are interested in removing the whole ticket.”

“I’m here to tell you that a huge amount of the donor class, and a huge amount of these elites, and a huge amount of these folks in these rooms that I see that are pushing for President Biden to not be the nominee, also are not interested in seeing the vice president being the nominee. Will they win out on that? I don’t know. But I am here to tell you, do not take that for granted,” she added.

Ocasio-Cortez further underlined her point about the chaos that might engulf the party if Biden steps aside by noting that she has asked those advocating for such a course for their plan and has not received a satisfactory answer. “What I can tell you is that I have stood up in rooms of folks making these decisions, and I have raised these questions, and no one had an answer for me,” she said.

She went on to make an affirmative case for Biden himself, submitting that “People underestimate Biden’s performance. I think that is how he became president, is through a lot of people underestimating his performance with demographics that are not traditionally valued. And I think that people see where he’s weak. They don’t often see where he’s strong and just electorally, purely electorally.”

She continued :

Joe Biden kind of like stomps with older people, like electorally, which is one of the strongest and most consistent electorates, and it’s actually a hard electorate for Democrats to win. You know, those are not people that are on Twitter, but they vote more consistently than almost any other bracket. So you take that off the table, you cannot assume that that electorate transfers to any other candidate.

“What I’m here to say is we can’t just allow these decisions to be made by groupthink, momentum, inertia. We really need to consider the consequences. And if the data, the logistics, what have you, supports another path? Go ahead, like make that,” said Ocasio-Cortez. “But this idea that we’re we’re just going to talk about what theoretically is best. This isn’t, this is not 2023. And so, you know, folks are saying the- and also, folks are saying polling only has momentum. Maybe that might be true, have we thought about what is leading to that? Because I think hundreds of millions of dollars in earned media from people, like members of Congress saying things off the record, like I just. And again, I could be wrong, I could be wrong. I’m not here to tell you his is what it is. But what I, what I am here to tell you is some of the red alerts that I’m seeing on the dashboard in terms of things, concerns that I have not seen adequately addressed.”