Current Events > AOC influence in question after Eric Adams defeats her picks for NYC mayor

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-influence-in-question-eric-adams-nyc-mayoral-race

About a year and a half ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made headlines after she downplayed election wins for Democrats in solidly Democrat districts, including her own. She also mentioned Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and said a "glass of water" with a "D" next to it could win. "[S]he's a wonderful member of Congress as I think all of our colleagues will attest. But those are districts that are solidly Democratic," Pelosi, D-Calif., said at the time. The comment was widely embraced by Republicans who have been trying to gauge Ocasio-Cortez's influence on a much larger scale. Could she defeat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., in a race for the Senate? Can she be the mayor of New York? Ocasio-Cortez herself has left open the possibility of a Senate run in the past.

The victory by Eric Adams, a former police captain, in New York City's Democratic primary for mayor could be an indicator that the congresswomans sway in her own city is exaggerated. In the first round of voting in the primary, Ocasio-Cortez endorsed progressive candidate Maya Wiley and ranked Scott Stringer as her second choice. Neither candidate even advanced to the final round, where Adams faced off against Kathryn Garcia in a close contest.

Not surprised at all the poll numbers show rich white people are the ones voting for the AOC/Bernie Sanders crowd. They dont do well with minorities.

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yeah cause AOCs district is rich white liberals and not actually mostly minorities

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are there a lot of rich white people in her district? quick lookup suggests no.

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but shes so popular on the twitter

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It was 50.5 to 49.5 with Adams having all of the power behind him . Yeah that is a big win moderates .

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ThyCorndog posted...

yeah cause AOCs district is rich white liberals and not actually mostly minorities

If that were the case theyd have kept electing Crowley

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cjsdowg posted...

It was 50.5 to 49.5 with Adams having all of the power behind him

Adams power is ultimate

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lol Fox News is obsessed

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Thank goodness her influence is waning, socialism in America is divisive and dangerous.
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Lmao, no way am I reading a Fox News story about AOC
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Lmao, no way am I reading a Fox News story about AOC

You may not like the source but doesn't change the results. A non progressive who is against Defund the Police is going won the Dem primary and is pretty much going to be the next mayor of NYC.

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She's not from NYC anyway.

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AOC is the epitome of whats right isnt always popular.

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Fony posted...

She's not from NYC anyway.

Doesn't Adams live in jersey

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ThyCorndog posted...

Doesn't Adams live in jersey

Yeah

Congrats to the Republicans for getting one of their own into the mayoral seat

Seems like white progressive organizers need to do a better job of talking with not at minority voters

ThyCorndog posted...

yeah cause AOCs district is rich white liberals and not actually mostly minorities

AOC's district is 18% white.
If I didn't know any better, I'd say you're a dumb person. But I know better, no one on CE would say anything dumb.

Honestly there are times where I feel like a lot of AOC's overall influence is the result of the conservatives turning her into some sort of boogie man following her initial win. She was a young, progressive who unseated the old-guard democrat. She is the great socialist threat we have been warning you about. Blah blah blah. It was a lot of attention on an otherwise nobody freshman representative. And made her way more prominent, despite hardly being the only progressive in the House.

That isn't to take away from any of her beliefs, actions, or stances. She has done a great job of engaging with people and has leveraged her visibility very well. I just wonder how prominent she would be if people like Fox News weren't all but branding her a Horseman of the Apocalypse and instead paid her as much mind as any other new Democrat congressperson.

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Background_Guy posted...

AOC's district is 18% white.
If I didn't know any better, I'd say you're a dumb person. But I know better, no one on CE would say anything dumb.

yeah one of us is definitely dumb. re-read my obviously sarcastic post again

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cjsdowg posted...

It was 50.5 to 49.5 with Adams having all of the power behind him . Yeah that is a big win moderates .

...It was 50.5 to 49.5 against Garcia, another moderate. AOC's candidate didn't even make it to the last round lol.

BeyondWalls posted...

AOC is the epitome of whats right isnt always popular.

The candidate AOC endorsed was one of the worst in the race, especially on housing. She's the epitome of what's popular on the internet is almost never right.

ThyCorndog posted...

yeah one of us is definitely dumb. re-read my obviously sarcastic post again

Well ain't I a goop goop

Progressive groups need to unify amongst themselves around 1 candidate and need to message/outreach/coalition build better.

Don't be shocked when moderates win primaries and progressives lose, they're good at all those things while progressives tend to be crap at them

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Doom_Art posted...

Progressive groups need to unify amongst themselves around 1 candidate and need to message/outreach/coalition build better.

Don't be shocked when moderates win primaries and progressives lose, they're good at all those things while progressives tend to be crap at them

this was a ranked choice primary right? so even if there was a division within the progressive group i cant see why at least one of their candidates wouldn't do well if there was an actually significant progressive movement in nyc.

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Doom_Art posted...

Progressive groups need to unify amongst themselves around 1 candidate and need to message/outreach/coalition build better.

Don't be shocked when moderates win primaries and progressives lose, they're good at all those things while progressives tend to be crap at them

It also has to be a good candidate who isn't hyper divisive and doesn't tout things like socialism as well.
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Hop103 posted...

It also has to be a good candidate who isn't hyper divisive and doesn't tout things like socialism as well.

Someone who supports Trump and the GQP is in no position to be whining about divisiveness lol

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bumpo

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Turns out Twitter Burns isn't an effective form of doing your job.

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Hop103 posted...

Thank goodness her influence is waning, socialism in America is divisive and dangerous.

Well, when she becomes President, feel free to move.

There really wasn't a good leftist candidate in this race though. You only had two: Maya Wiley, a MSNBC host with little actual political experience who wasn't *that* left(no more left than, say, Liz Warren), who lost by just a few points and Dianne Morales, a former non-profit exec who was the only candidate to pick up "defund the police" but torpedoed herself by creating a toxic work environment and trying to break her campaign's union.
Adams, meanwhile, had the full backing of the NYPD and all kinds of centrist PACs and politicians. Unfortunately, a lot of liberals have a NIMBY attitude about police brutality, or only care about it when it's being done by Republicans.

At the same time, the DSA picked up two city council seats.

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Most Americans really arent as super progressive as some people seem to think

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Samurontai posted...

Most Americans really arent as super progressive as some people seem to think

America has a long way to go when it comes to progressive popularity


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The infuriating thing is that progressives tend to win the war on messaging/culture but they just suck at winning elections.

If they could just play the game better then they'd be set

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Holy shit you're telling me AOC doesn't have the power to make every primary in her city go the way she wants simply by her own willpower?

SHOCKING

Don't worry though, Fox News will still go back to saying she has the power to single handedly destroy all of America by tomorrow.

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Yeah people in general tend to be more conservative than what we see in social media cliques.

We'd like to think the country is divided in half between republicans and democrats, but really it's divided between voters against themselves, and non voters.

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This is a common tactic used by fear mongers and fascists. The person or group they are demonizing is both simultaneously so powerful and dangerous while also somehow being so weak and ineffective/incompetent.

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Didn't she endorse Wiley with less than a week remaining and while early voting was already happening?

If that's the case, that endorsement came way too late to make a meaningful difference.