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From the Daily Caller: Former Clinton pollster Mark Penn warned Thursday that Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez challenging Democratic New York Sen. Chuck Schumer in 2028 could deal a devastating blow to the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party’s favorability plunged to a record low of 29%, according to a Sunday CNN/SSRS poll conducted March 6-9. Penn, on “The Story with Martha MacCallum,” said the poll indicates that the Democratic Party has retained its “left base” while “moderates” are fleeing in droves.
“I don’t think she’s going to challenge Schumer, but if she does, I mean, already the Democratic ratings are down to 29%. I’ve never seen anything like it,” Penn said. “That means the left base is with the Democratic Party and the moderates are all leaving the party. So AOC taking off Schumer, wow, that could finish this party off. This could put it into the wilderness the way the Labour Party was for a decade.”
Schumer, the senate minority leader, has held his Senate seat since 1999. He has recently landed in hot water with his fellow Democrats after he backtracked on a plan to block the Republicans’ spending bill.
“Schumer has been in politics for a long time, and I would hope that this is his final term, and he opens it up for someone new,” Ocasio-Cortez said after the vote.
Now many Democrats are calling for Ocasio-Cortez, a socialist, to run against him when he is next up for re-election.
But Penn says if that happens, it will be the undoing of the Democrat Party.
WATCH BELOW:
FLASHBACK TO JUNE 2019: Penn called the Russia collusion hoax against President Trump “the biggest lie that I have ever seen perpetrated on the American public.”
Life-long Democrat and former Clinton strategist Mark Penn on collusion:
“It’s the biggest lie that I have ever seen perpetrated on the American public” pic.twitter.com/gaWV79Qqvb
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) June 10, 2019
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