Posted on 05/24/2025 4:41:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
ATLANTA (AP) — The billionaire heir and the former bartender.
Many Democrats have been in and out of the spotlight as the party looks for effective counters to President Donald Trump and his second administration. But two disparate figures, Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, have seen their national profiles rise by delivering messages that excite a demoralized and fractured party.
The governor, a 60-year-old heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, and the congresswoman, the 35-year-old with working-class roots, both won their first elections in 2018. Both have urged mass resistance and accused their party of not fighting more. Each has stood out enough to draw sharp retorts from Trump loyalists.
But as messengers, Pritzker and Ocasio-Cortez could not be more different. And their arguments, despite some overlap, are distinct enough to raise familiar questions for Democrats: Should they make their challenges to Trump about threats to democracy and national stability, as Pritzker has done, or portray him as a corrupt billionaire exacerbating an uneven economy, as Ocasio-Cortez does? And beyond the message itself, what qualities should the best messenger have?
What links them, said one prominent Democrat, is “assertiveness.”
“People want Trump and Trumpism to be met with equal passion and force,” said National Urban League President Marc Morial, a former New Orleans mayor deeply connected in Democratic politics. On that front, he added, Pritzker and Ocasio-Cortez “are both effective national figures –- but in very different ways.”
Pritzker, an establishment power player
Pritzker was born at the bridge of the baby boomers and Generation X into a sprawling family now entrenched in Democratic politics. Like Trump, he inherited great wealth, but he lambastes...
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And a hypocrite.
Imagine... an airhead and a cross between Tim Walz and Jerrold Nadler. Never ending sources of material for Greg Gutfeld.
Bernie will be 87 by the time of the 2028 election. Maybe that’s too old even for the Democratic Party. AOC may face a stronger threat from Jasmine Crockett, who would appeal to black women more than AOC could.
And renting out rooms versus building spaceships, AI systems, EVs, payment systems, tunnel boring systems!
Who contributes more to the USA?
Hint...it sure ain’t the guy who rents you a room for the night.
And....? You point is?
What a trust fund nepo baby & a not-so-good low class bartender are priming themselves to lead the charge? Sterling qualifications (sarc).
Fatso and Whacko.
Blobbo and bimbo.
CC
I’m hoping he can add “convicted and jailed” to his resume like too many of his predecessor Governors.
+1
Ca-ching!
Prickster makes Chris Christie look like an Olympic athlete.
“Looks like the country is being placed back on the right track with border security and prosperity, and an end to weird woke socialism, guess we’d better resist, because we’re crazy and stupid,” read their stirring manifesto.
They are being presented as leaders with no actual leading of anything of mouth running.
Pritzker is the governor of a failed state. The only reason he is getting some national attention is because he is bashing Trump.
I think they getting ready to prep him as alleged Presidential material.
No doubt his team is putting feelers out for a presidential run, I don’t think he is popular outside of Illinois.
I’m sure they are already stroking his ego. Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel. as for AoC she has no chance at making President, unless some major shenanigans are played.
He was a Covid tyrant and tries to play tough guy. Maybe that plays in the Chicago area, but I doubt it does elsewhere.
Yeah I don’t think they have much choice. Newsom is slowly self destructing as Ca learns how much his policies suck while his supporters learn how much of a squish he is in standing up for their issues.
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