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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I’d give the advantage to Newsom because he thinner and has better hair gel...
Haven’t seen a pair like that since they had traveling carnivals and the folks had to pay a nickel to go behind the curtain to see them. Right next to lobster boy and the bearded lady.
This is good news. They have chosen possibly the two dumbest people on earth.
The family who put Obama in power have now picked their next minion.
Anyone seen the bartender’s Congrssional finance disclosure forms...?
Nowhere on the planet does a Deep State hire the front office appearance types for brains.
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