Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez admits that Democrats are in big trouble, calling for US President Joe Biden to his executive power to deliver his promises to the voters and ram through a leftist agenda.
In a recent interview with the New York Magazine, the lawmaker admitted that her fellow democrats won’t win the midterm elections unless they make some changes and act quickly.
Ocasio-Cortez urged Biden and her fellow Democrats in Washington to “dig their heels in on radically left-wing governance.”
“We need to acknowledge that this isn’t just about [the] middle of the road, an increasingly narrow band of independent voters. This is really about the collapse of support among young people, among the Democratic base, who are feeling that they worked overtime to get this president elected and aren’t necessarily being seen,” Ocasio-Cortez explained.
According to the recent surveys, Biden’s favorability rating has dropped to 40%. Voters claimed that Biden’s party is “out of touch,” “condescending,” and “not up to the task of leading the country.”
However, Ocasio-Cortez believes that the problem lies with the Democrats “alleged” failure in pushing the agenda onto the American people.
The lawmaker suggested that Biden should use his executive authority to ram policies through since the Congress is unable to legislate the “types of policies the progressive base desires.”
The policies include lowering health care costs, overhauling police departments, environmental protections, expanding protections for illegal immigrants and canceling federal student loan debts.
“If the president does pursue and start to govern decisively using executive action and other tools at his disposal, I think we’re in the game. But if we decide to just kind of sit back for the rest of the year and not change people’s lives. Yeah, I do think we’re in trouble.” She continued.
Along with Ocasio-Cortez were 97 Democratic colleagues in the Congressional Progressive Caucus, who demanded an executive action from Biden, in hopes to save the Democratic party from an embarrassing political defeat in November.
