- It’s no secret that the Democrats have a weak bench of political talent, with deeply flawed candidates such as Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg seen as the most likely party successors to President Biden.
- Now Democrat activists are pitching a new heroine: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose “meteoric rise” they compare to Barack Obama.
- Michael Starr Hopkins, a Democrat communications specialist, made the case for AOC: “When Barack Obama came out of nowhere to win his Senate seat in 2004, it almost felt preordained. … Flash forward to 2018, and the meteoric rise of a 29-year-old bartender from Queens feels eerily similar.”
- Hopkins gushed: “She is a force to be reckoned with, and in 2024 Democrats are going to need her force to reckon with Republicans. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is less of a personality and more of a movement.”
