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The following is kind of a made-up story, but required reading for anyone with a 2028 fix.
I don’t mean it to be a myth. This Axios piece is based on original reporting.
But it’s just another angle out of a thousand possible angles on who might win the next Democratic nomination.
I am a fan of Axios. I have written many such stories myself. This is what you do when there is no solid news about an event that won’t start for a year and a half. You have to keep feeding the beast.
AOC, ASKED ABOUT PRESIDENT’S CAUSE, SAYS HIS BUNDLE IS ‘BIGGER THAN THERE’
Axios now shines more light on Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., before 2028. (Getty Images)
(In fairness, Axios’ first three stories yesterday were about war, Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS and congressional oversight.)
So this is one of those in-between stories, days where there is no development of hard stories.
We used to call this the “invisible core.” But that name should be removed. In the age of X and Instagram, of group discussions, of powerful podcasts, nothing is invisible. Anyone can log into Substack and try to draw the following, with varying levels of insight and accuracy. Few “scoops” last more than two minutes in this echo chamber.
AOC TAKES A PAGE FROM BIDEN’S PLAYBOOKS FOR INTERVIEW AND NATIONAL NEWS
And you probably know the history of entering the name of the ID. At the end of 2007, Rudy Giuliani was the front runner for the GOP. Hillary Clinton, who everyone expected to win, was leading Barack Obama 45 to 27 percent.
At the end of 2003, Howard Dean led the field with 23% t, double that of his closest rivals. John Kerry was in sixth place, with 4%. That Kerry guy easily won the nomination.
Now Axios exposes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ro Khanna:
“Veterans of Bernie Sanders’ two presidential campaigns are dividing their loyalties among Democrats vying to inherit his progressive movement…”
The California congressman “took a much narrower view than Ocasio-Cortez on issues like crime and immigration. He hired key members of Sanders’ 2016 campaign—most notably 2016 campaign manager Jeff Weaver—who had a more moderate stance on immigration and guns—and Hill didn’t have a bad scare.”
The AOC “touched the strategists behind Sanders’ efforts in 2020, when the senator from Vermont left on social issues and pushed back on policies such as ending border crossings by undocumented immigrants, and largely avoided insulting Joe Biden.”
So this is about hiring unknown workers. “Old Bernie” vs. “New Bernie.”
The pinnacle of the news, if there was one, was the shooting of the New York women’s conference in MTG: “I personally do not trust someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene, a proven and dissident bully, on the issue of what is good for Gazans and Israelis.”
An AtlasIntel poll shows Ocasio-Cortez leading the likely Democratic primary field with 26% of the vote. (Reuters/Jeenah Moon)
Based on the AtlasIntel survey, Ocasio-Cortez leads the Democratic field with 26%, while Khanna came in tenth place with 0.9%. So this story may help him.
Personally, I don’t think AOC will work. He recently said he’s more interested in pushing agenda items like health care than he is in office. I am not saying that he will not be able to run for office, or that he will not win the nomination, although he may be busy in the national election. But she doesn’t want it as openly as Kamala Harris.
Any Democrat worth their salt should be tempted by the popularity of President Donald Trump. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Of course, any Democrat with a pulse should be tempted by Donald Trump’s sinking poll numbers.
In a recent New York Times/Siena College poll, the president’s approval rating fell to a second-term low of 37%. (Remember that each such announcement only applies to the previous survey of that media outlet, resulting in an ALL-TIME headline overload.)
Nearly two-thirds say going to war with Iran was a mistake, and 64% disapprove of his handling of the economy.
Trump won’t be on the ballot in 2028, of course, but Trumpism will be.
Meanwhile, the confirmation of Trump’s nominee Kevin Warsh as Fed chairman doesn’t necessarily mean he will get his long-held desire to lower interest rates. In fact, it’s quite the opposite.
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On Maria Bartiromo’s Fox show, analyst Ryan Payne of Payne Capital Management said pressure is mounting on the Fed to actually raise interest rates.
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“The bond watchers have spoken, and what they’re telling you is that the Fed probably has to raise rates here to control inflation because, obviously, right now we’re priced in a very different market than we were two weeks ago.”
Bartiromo admitted: “Yes, it is true and, of course, the president continues to say that this is a temporary situation.”
