Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has warned that “elites” within the Democratic Party who want President Joe Biden to exit the presidential race also want Vice President Kamala Harris off the party’s ticket.
“If you think there is a consensus among the people who want Joe Biden to leave that they will support Vice President Kamala Harris, you would be mistaken,” Ocasio-Cortez said during an Instagram Live session early on Friday.
“I’m in these rooms, I see what they say… a lot of them are not just interested in removing the president, they are interested in removing the whole ticket,” she added.
“My community does not have the option to lose,” she said.
Biden, who is currently isolating with COVID-19, faces increasing pressure to withdraw from the race following a debate performance last month that heightened concerns about his age and his ability to defeat Republican nominee Donald Trump in November.
“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 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.
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Despite publicly committing to stay in the race, Axios reports that privately, the president has acknowledged the growing calls from lawmakers for him to drop out amid poor polling and heightened scrutiny of his age and mental fitness.
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