AOC Is Considering Quitting Politics Because She’s Tired Of The Democratic Party

In the aftermath of the 2020 election, a few things are clear: Joe Biden has won the presidency, and the Democrats have lost other races. Although Dems thought they would lead America into a Blue Wave and take control of the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate, they didn’t win as many races as projected. While some pundits blame poor polling practices, others blame progressives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Over the weekend, Ocasio-Cortez blamed “Republican narratives” for the Democratic Party’s losses in the 2020 election. She also revealed that she almost did not run for reelection because of all the in-house fighting among Democrats.

“I genuinely don’t know. I don’t even know if I want to be in politics,” she told The New York Times. “You know, for real, in the first six months of my term, I didn’t even know if I was going to run for reelection this year.”

Although House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thought the Democratic Party would win more seats in the House and perhaps take control over the Senate, those milestones were not achieved. Instead, the Republicans did better than expected, taking eight seats. They even managed to unseat some Democratic incumbents and flip the Blue district Red.

“Republicans levied very effective rhetorical attacks against our party,” Ocasio-Cortez told CNN’s Jake Tapper during an interview on “State of the Union” this Saturday.

Although Ocasio-Cortez has caused a lot of problems for Donald Trump, members of her own party are not big fans of her and her progressive ideals either. House Majority Whip James Clyburn is among the most vocal critics of Ocasio-Cortez and her “squad.”

He argued that because of Ocasio-Cortez and her radical politics, Trump and Republicans were able to label the Democrats as “socialists” and blame Democrats for calls to “defund the police.” These statements, according to Clyburn, can “kill a political effort.”

He said, “I don’t get hung up on labels. I’m an American, a very proud American. And I’m a Democrat, a very proud Democrat. So I just want us to be Democrats in a big tent, and these labels, I reject.”

During an interview with Chuck Todd from NBC, Clyborn was asked if the “defund the police” movement and the socialist label hurt the party.

“Well, I don’t know about all the seats,” Clyburn said during his appearance on “Meet the Press” Sunday morning. “I really believe that that’s what cost Joe Cunningham his seat,’ he added of the Democrat incumbent from South Carolina who lost to Republican challenger Nancy Mace. And I can also tell you about the Senate here in South Carolina. Jaime Harrison started to plateau when ‘defund the police’ showed up with a caption on TV, ran across his head. That stuff hurt Jaime. And that’s why I spoke out against it a long time ago.”

Ocasio-Cortez shot back on Sunday.

“Not a single member of Congress that I’m aware of campaigned on socialism or defunding the police in this general election. And these were largely slogans or where they were demands from activist groups that we saw in the largest uprising in American history around police brutality.”