2028 Presidential Race Rivalry Building Between AOC and This Ambitious Democrat: Axios

A rivalry between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ro Khanna is developing ahead of the 2028 presidential race. Khanna is using a team and strategy associated with Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign, including staff with a relatively moderate approach to immigration and guns and a willingness to attack Hillary Clinton. Khanna has taken a more centrist stance than Ocasio-Cortez on crime and immigration. Ocasio-Cortez is hiring people linked to Sanders’ 2020 campaign, moving left on social issues and supporting decriminalizing border crossings by unauthorized immigrants. She has also avoided bashing Joe Biden and has framed her agenda as across-the-board progressive. She rebuked Marjorie Taylor Greene and emphasized not yielding on progressive values and human rights.

"Khanna is replicating the team and strategy deployed by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) during his 2016 campaign, according to Axios's Alex Thompson and Holly Otterbein. He's hired key members of Sanders' 2016 campaign, which had a relatively moderate brand on immigration and guns and didn't fear going negative on Hillary Clinton. Khanna has taken a slightly more centrist view than Ocasio-Cortez on issues such as crime and immigration."

"Ocasio-Cortez is hiring people associated with his 2020 campaign, as well as positioning herself as an across-the-board progressive rather than just an economic populist. AOC has tapped strategists behind Sanders' effort in 2020, when the Vermont senator moved left on social issues to back policies such as decriminalizing border crossings by unauthorized immigrants, and largely avoided bashing Joe Biden."

"I personally do not trust someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene, a proven bigot and anti-Semite, on the issues of what is good for Gazans and Israelis. I don't! I don't think that it benefits our movement, in that instance, to align the left with white nationalists. I don't think it serves us, submitted Ocasio-Cortez at an event earlier this month. I will not yield an inch when it comes to standing for progressive values and for the human rights of every person."

"But if conservatives are willing to support justice for Epstein survivors or stopping the war in Iran, I will work with them, Khanna told Thompson and Otterbein. A new AtlasIntel survey published last"

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