AOC breaks silence and endorses Kamala Harris despite warning days ago about 'enormous peril' if Biden forced to drop out of the 2024 race
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After fiercely supporting President Joe Biden's reelection bid, Progressive 'Squad' leader Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has broken her silence, throwing her full support behind VP Kamala Harris.
President Biden's shocking announcement Sunday seemed to tee up Harris to neatly assume the campaign he left behind. Biden even endorsed her to take the Democratic presidential nomination.
Harris, who had one of the most progressive records during her time in the Senate, has been lauded and endorsed by AOC's Squad allies like Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Cori Bush, D-Mo.
AOC, who just last Thursday went to bat for Biden during a late night Instagram livestream decrying the 'enormous peril' posed by replacing the president atop the ticket, walked that back and pledged her full support for Harris after Joe jumped out of the 2024 race this afternoon.
Just two weeks ago, after the disastrous CNN debate rattled Joe Biden's campaign, Ocasio-Cortez threw her complete support behind the president, saying it 'he is our nominee' and that 'the matter is closed'
'Kamala Harris will be the next President of the United States,' the New York Democrat wrote on X Sunday night.
'I pledge my full support to ensure her victory in November.'
'Now more than ever, it is crucial that our party and country swiftly unite to defeat Donald Trump and the threat to American democracy. Let’s get to work.'
The 34-year-old congresswoman took to Instagram - one of her favorite tools to reach her massive devoted and following - and for an hour just last Thursday to describe the 'perils' of Biden dropping out on Thursday.
'People need to understand the reality and the gravity of what these people are proposing,' she said.
'I'm not saying this is all a reason not to do it, but I do think people are talking about this without having two eyes wide open as to what this really means.'
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pledged her 'full support' to Vice President Kamala Harris
Then she raised the alarm: 'I have not seen an alternative scenario that I feel will not set us up for enormous peril.'
Also in the monologue, AOC warned that the Democrats are far from unified behind the vice president.
'I'm just going to say it. If you think that there is consensus among the people who want Joe Biden to leave that Kamala, that they will support Kamala, Vice President Harris, you would be mistaken,' Ocasio-Cortez said on the stream.
'I'm in these rooms. I see what they say in conversations, Ocasio-Cortez said. 'They are interested in removing the whole ticket.'
She called out a 'lack of thought' from Democratic leadership who did not want Biden to run but did not have a fool-proof alternate plan.
The congresswoman said that former President Trump is 'also very old, and a racist, and a neo-Nazi.'
U.S. President Joe Biden and U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) hold hands at an event to commemorate Earth Day during a visit to Prince William Forest Park in Triangle, Virginia, U.S., April 22, 2024
Ocasio-Cortez has served as a surrogate on the Biden campaign
Now, her tune has changed and she and her fellow Squad members are lining up behind the former progressive senator.
Harris has also been endorsed by other notable Democrats like the Clintons and California Gov. Gavin Newsom - who has been thought to be in contention for the nomination.
