New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared on MSNBC to be interviewed by former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki, and she weighed in on the prospective outcomes in the forthcoming Republican presidential primary.
“The Republican Party is so disorganized that I really don’t see someone who can unite that party, even beyond Donald Trump,” the talkative congresswoman popularly known as “AOC” said. What exactly the sentence means is unclear.
Psaki asked Ocasio-Cortez if “Trump winning the GOP nomination would be the Democrats’ best chance at securing the White House next cycle,” as Fox News reported.
“I think that Governor DeSantis has made some very large critical errors. And I think he’s weaker,” Cortez said of the Florida governor.
And what are those very large critical errors, according to the congresswoman?
“You can’t out Trump Trump, right?” AOC said, referencing DeSantis. “And that’s what he has really been trying to do. He may be trying to win a base, but that base belongs to Donald Trump.”
Ocasio-Cortez continued, stating that DeSantis’ policies go “way too far in the state of Florida.” Her comment came less than six months after DeSantis’ won reelection in the Sunshine State by historical margins, defeating moderate Democrat Charlie Crist by almost 19.5%.
DeSantis also won by a wide estimated eight-point margin with independent voters.
Yet even though Florida voters have not found DeSantis and his policies to be “way too far,” it does not necessarily follow that voters cannot be convinced otherwise in time for the next election.
But, just what is it that makes DeSantis “weak?”
AOC shared comments with Psaki that touched on a theme mentioned above.
“[DeSantis] has sacrificed I think the one thing that others may have thought would make him competitive, which is this idea that he would somehow be more rational than Donald Trump, which he isn’t,” the congresswoman reportedly told Psaki.
That, now, does stick to the script as predicted with bold, absolute confidence by conservative commentators.
An example is conservative firebrand Kurt Schlichter, who wrote in October 2022, “Sure, Donald Trump was Hitler, but DeSantis is both disciplined and (unlike Trump) sees that institutions like the regime media are worthless and must be destroyed, so he is Super Hitler on Steroids times a zillion.”
Schlichter again addressed the phenomenon just this past month, writing that “It’s easier to be popular with the regime media by modeling fecklessness and harmlessness than to be called worse than Hitler for not letting groomer teachers put perverted books in their classrooms. But here’s the punchline – if one of these no-chancers were to defeat Trump or DeSantis (or even Haley, Scott, or Pompeo) and win the nomination, they would instantly become Hitler too. And they are so dense that they would be shocked.”
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