Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Stumping in DE For Kerri Harris and Beyond
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the breakout star of these midterm elections. I didn’t get to attend any of her events here in Delaware but reading and following from afar I have two observations.
1) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is tenaciously paying it forward. She seems aware of the fact that this is our moment and she is uniquely positioned to make our case to a wider audience. She is dong it with grace and grit.
2) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has managed to communicate the urgency of living and working in this moment while she is also is looking toward the horizon. There is a real sense that this is a movement. It is about this election, but it is about this election as the first in a long series of upcoming elections. It is the turning of a flywheel.
Yea Coby!
Coby’s the man!
(The fact that Josh & I are agreeing more and more is a very good sign I think.)
This seems applicable:
Peter Hamby: “The hype emerging from the Democrat’s campaign points to something rather obvious: O’Rourke is good at this, way better than most of the Democrats sniffing around the next presidential race from the boring hallways of Capitol Hill. Whether he wins or loses his race—and yes, even if he loses—O’Rourke should be included in every conversation about the 2020 Democratic primary. That’s because, unlike most of the paint-by-numbers politicians in his party, O’Rourke actually understands how politics should be conducted in the Donald Trump era: authentic, full of energy, stripped of consultant-driven sterility, and waged at all times with a social-media-primed video screen in mind. O’Rourke is making a bet that running on his gut and giving voters a clear choice against Cruz, rather than just a mushy alternative, offers not just a path to victory in Texas but an antidote to the entire stupid artifice of American politics in the Trump era.”
“The most appealing thing about O’Rourke is both delightfully uncomplicated and extremely powerful: he talks about politics like you and your friends do.”
Big fan of Beto, he’s got it. Might I add the Republicans are mocking his rock band days, what fools they be. Standing on a stage and rocking out is good training for public speaking, dealing with hecklers and fans and when disaster strikes you are ready. As in “Is that smoke coming out of my amp?”.
Scott Goss does a nice job with this NJ coverage:
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2018/08/31/carper-harris-democratic-senate-primary-has-gained-national-attention/1160563002/
I think the NJ has stepped up their game a bit.
Also, one of the most delightful parts of this primary season has been not reading Celia Cohen’s take on it.
A follow-up on Kerri’s event at the Bellefonte Cafe. My friends are the owners of the place and, while they are registered D’s, they’re not generally politically involved. BTW, Jason and I both love the Cafe.
We had dinner there last night as a guy who I went to high school with was playing piano (Lindsay Lee, he’s awesome). I was talking to my friends and they were so excited about Kerri. I’m tellin’ ya, the momentum is real.
Carper’s probably thinking, ‘Why couldn’t the election have been on Tuesday?” It’s melting away for him.