Ocasio-Cortez accuses fellow Democrats of blocking a real 2024 primary, then scrambling to rewrite history
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is now publicly calling out members of her own party for shielding Joe Biden from primary challengers in 2024, and then pretending they wanted him gone all along.The New York progressive used a Thursday appearance on "The Majority Report" podcast to level a pointed charge at Democratic leadership: the same insiders who locked arms around Biden before a single primary vote were cast are now jockeying to claim they saw the problem early.
Ocasio-Cortez named no names, but her description of a "consultant class" racing to distance itself from Biden's failed candidacy left little doubt about who she meant.
Her comments land two years after Democrats lost the White House and amid an ongoing internal reckoning over how the party handled Biden's age and fitness.
For conservative voters who watched the 2024 primary season play out as a coronation rather than a contest, the congresswoman's admission confirms what many suspected at the time: Democratic leaders chose to protect a sitting president over letting their own voters decide.
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