New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was on Instagram Live early on Friday to share her opinions on President Joe Biden’s struggling re-election campaign. She warned that many of those who want the president to drop out of the race also do not want Vice President Kamala Harris to clinch the ticket.
Ocasio-Cortez chastised her colleagues for giving anonymous quotes to the press, calling it “bull****,” and urged those resigned to a defeat to Donald Trump to give up their seats.
“My community does not have the option to lose,” she said.
“If they’re going to come out and say all their little things on background, off the record, but they’re not going to be fully honest, I’m going to be honest for them. I’m in these rooms. I see what they say in conversations,” the congresswoman said.
“A lot of them are not just interested in removing the president. They are interested in removing the whole ticket.”
Her take came up amid mounting pressure on the president to drop the ambition. While he remains publicly committed to contesting the election, Axios reports that privately, the president has acknowledged increasing calls from lawmakers for him to drop out due to poor polling and mounting scrutiny of his age and mental acuity.
“I’m not here to tell you that if Joe Biden is the nominee, he’s definitely going to win because I don’t think if anybody is the nominee, we’re definitely going to win,” Ocasio-Cortez also said on Friday.
“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,” she added.