New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at one time claimed that she was considering quitting politics, but now she has a new idea.
The 30-year-old says she wants the people who are at the top of the Democrat Party to quit their positions of power.
“I do think we need new leadership in the Democratic Party,” she said.“I think one of the things that I have struggled with, I think that a lot of people struggle with, is the internal dynamics of the House has made it such that there [are] very little options for succession.”
“How do we fill that vacuum? Because if you create that vacuum, there are so many nefarious forces at play to fill that vacuum with something even worse,” she said on The Intercept podcast ‘Intercepted’ in an interview that was broadcast on Wednesday.
“And so, the actual sad state of affairs is that there are folks more conservative than even they are willing to kind of fill that void,” the representative said.
But she said that she would not be willing to take on that role if House Speaker and California Rep. Nancy Pelosi, along with Senate Minority Leader and New York Sen. Charles Schumer, were given the boot.
