AOC Joins Harris Train Days After Bemoaning The VP’s Unpopularity Among Dems

Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential bid Sunday despite publicly denouncing her on Instagram Live days early.

Ocasio-Cortez announced her support of Harris to be the Democratic nominee for the 2024 presidential election in an X post following President Joe Biden’s statement announcing his withdrawal from the race and support of Harris as his replacement. Ocasio-Cortez had previously warned of Harris’ low support from the Democratic Party and claimed that the party’s donor class and elites did not want Harris to be the presidential nominee.

“If you think that there is consensus among the people who want Joe Biden to leave, that they will support Vice President Harris, you would be mistaken,” she said in a livestream. “A lot of them are not just interested in removing the president. They are interested in removing the whole ticket.”

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Biden announced Sunday via X his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race, bringing into question who his replacement will be as the Democratic nominee with August’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago looming. AOC warned in her livestream what would be “uncorked” if Biden dropped out, referring to the difficulty of finding a viable alternative candidate and dealing with the legal issues surrounding the transferring of donations that have already been made to the Biden-Harris campaign to a new candidate.