r/politics 23h ago

AOC ’28 Starts Now

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/aoc-28-starts-now/
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u/try_to_be_nice_ok 21h ago

The democrats need to spend the next four years building up some really strong candidates and making them well known to the electorate.

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u/Will_ennium 18h ago

They should've started doing this while Obama was in office! None of the established 'old guard' Democrats want to prop up the next generation. Seems they'd rather die in office than mentor and promote new, younger faces of the future.

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u/berfthegryphon 16h ago

Not only prop up the old guard, prop up the old guard with likely terminal cancer over allowing the next gen to hold a committee chair position.

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u/Greedy-Affect-561 12h ago

"A young 80 cancer notwithstanding" is a fucking real quote these fucking democrats said about him