Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lost her bid for the House Oversight Committee leadership position to Representative Gerry Connolly. The result sparked a debate among Democrats about the party's platform and its appeal to younger voters.
Representative Gerry Connolly (D-VA) won a leadership fight this week against Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , including Sunny Hostin suggesting the loss was due to the congresswoman being “demonized.” Hostin stated, “She’s been demonized as this too progressive, far-left person, and I want to try to set the record straight because if she is too progressive, then the Democrats really are going to lose the working class because this is her platform.
” Hostin continued, “The key issues: healthcare for all people, affordable housing, rebuild the unions, federal job guarantee, free public college. … If that is too progressive for this country, then that’s a problem for the Democrats, and that’s a problem, quite frankly, for this country.” Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin disagreed with Hostin and pointed out that Ocasio-Cortez had supported the far-left Green New Deal. Griffin stated, “A lot of this country does not support, for example, the Green New Deal, which would actually crush jobs across this country,’ Griffin said. “It would actually make international travel virtually impossible to do because of some of the regulations that would be in place.” Ocasio-Cortez, at 35 years old, had waged a fight for the leadership post of the House Oversight Committee, but her efforts were upended when Connolly defeated her in a vote of 131-84 during a closed-door caucus on Tuesday morning. Connolly, a 74-year-old veteran Virginia legislator, had the backing of influential Democrats, including former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked on Wednesday whether the party was not listening to “young Democrats” amid the rejection of Ocasio-Cortez’s efforts to be in a leadership position. Hostin pushed back, saying, “Young people had the highest support for the Democratic candidate” in the 2024 elections. She added that Republicans made some gains in the youth vote but young people were voting largely Democratic. President-elect Donald Trump reacted to the New York lawmaker’s failed bid for leadership
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