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In an interview with The Intercept podcast, the progressive hero and maker said Democrats have failed to create a succession plan once Pelosi and his generation of longtime leaders – many of them already the eighties are over – they moved away. Pelosi has indicated that this next two-year term will be his last as president.
“I think we need a new leadership in the Democratic Party … the internal dynamics of the House have meant that there are very few options for succession,” said Ocasio-Cortez, 31. “It’s easy for someone to say, ‘Well, you know, why don’t you run?’ But the house is extraordinarily complex and I’m not ready. I can’t be me. I know I couldn’t do that job.”
“Even conservative party members who think Nancy Pelosi is too liberal for them don’t necessarily have viable alternatives, so whenever there’s a challenge, it collapses,” he continued. “And that’s, I think, the result of just many years of being able to focus on leadership with a lack of … real preparation for a next generation of leadership.”
Ocasio-Cortez’s statements were an indirect blow to the president of the Democratic Caucus of the House Hakeem Jeffries
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Pelosi’s committee unanimously appointed her last month to serve two more years as president after running without opposition. But he is not entirely sure he can win the Orador’s hammer in a January 3 chamber vote. As the House Democrats unexpectedly lost more than a dozen seats in the November election, their majority is now reduced to just one digit, a handful of Democratic defections could deny Pelosi a another term leading the party.
Ocasio-Cortez, however, gave no indication that he would vote against Pelosi on the ground, even as other moderate Democrats have done. Some progressives have also floated Ocasio-Cortez as Schumer’s main potential challenger in 2022, though he has left out questions about whether he is interested in running.
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Asked directly about whether Pelosi and Schumer “need to go,” Ocasio-Cortez replied, “I mean, I think so.”
But he again warned that the party has no succession plan or serious candidates who can “fill that gap”.
“The hesitation I have is that I want to make sure that if we point people in a direction we have a plan,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “And my concern, and I recognize that as a failure as something we have to solve, is that there is no plan. How do we fill that gap?
“Because if you create this void, there are so many nefarious forces at play to fill this void with something even worse. And so the sad state of affairs is that there are more conservative people than even they are willing to … fill that gap. “