AOC refuses to say if she will endorse Biden in 2024 [Video]

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez refused to endorse President Joe Biden if he runs for reelection in 2024.
• AOC told CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday “we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.”
• Biden has faced low approval ratings amid soaring inflation.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declined to say if she would endorse President Joe Biden if he runs for reelection in 2024. During a CNN “State of the Union” interview, the New York Democrat told Dana Bash on Sunday that she is focusing on November’s midterm elections.

“We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it,” she said. “But I think if the president has a vision, and that’s something certainly we’re all willing to entertain and examine when the time comes,” she continued.

“That’s not a yes,” Bash noted, pressing Ocasio-Cortez on her refusing to endorse the president of her own party.

Ocasio-Cortez stressed that her focus is on this year’s elections.

“I think we should endorse when we get to it, but I believe that the president’s been doing a very good job so far,” the congresswoman said. “And, should he run again, I think that we’ll take a look at it.”

Ocasio-Cortez is known for challenging her own party.

On Tuesday, she endorsed progressive New York state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi in her primary bid to unseat Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).

Ocasio-Cortez criticized Maloney and some other Democrats after he made an announcement that he would run in New York’s 17th congressional district shortly after a new map was announced that would make some incumbents run against each other.

The district is currently mostly represented by Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.). Maloney was able to avoid a potentially awkward member-on-member primary after Jones decided that he would run in a separate district.

“By endorsing somebody who wants to beat and take out a member of your own party leadership, the very guy who is trying to get Democrats elected to keep control of the House, you’re obviously comfortable with that,” Bash said on Sunday.

The progressive congresswoman said that younger generations were underrepresented in Congress, then pointed out that lawmakers should not be elected “in perpetuity.”

Source: The Hill