Ever heard the phrase a “broken clock is right twice a day?” It’s a perfect way to describe New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who has officially become part of an ever growing group of leftists who are now looking to work with President-elect Donald Trump as much as they can during his second term. Already, without even being in office, Trump is uniting both sides of the political spectrum. It’s astounding really.
According to The Western Journal, AOC, who is known for being a far-left Democrat, provided remarks to Punchbowl News on Wednesday saying she’ll support policies from the Trump administration that line up with her values and beliefs. Believe it or not, that’s more than many Democrats have planned to do during Trump’s next four years.
“The reason why I think oftentimes Democrats occasionally lose elections is because we’re too reflexively anti-Republican, and that we don’t lean into an ambitious vision for working-class Americans strongly enough,” she said in an interview with the outlet.“The reason why I think oftentimes Democrats occasionally lose elections is because we’re too reflexively anti-Republican, and that we don’t lean into an ambitious vision for working-class Americans strongly enough,” she told the publication.
Punchbowl indeed reported that many other Democrats are taking an approach different from the resistance-style efforts seen during the first Trump administration. Particular issues on which some Democrats think they can find common ground with the incoming commander-in-chief include securing the border, reforming wasteful government spending, and advancing certain economic reforms.
“I don’t think the American people want extremism, but they do want changes at the border,” Florida Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz said during a conversation with the outlet.
Moskowitz stated that the Democrats are now trying to address the election loss they suffered by acknowledging that they’ve become out of touch with American voters on important issues, including immigration.
“On some of these issues, we were to the left of the American people,” he confessed. Yes, you are. Horrendously so, I might add. The good news is, we might be witnessing the left finally admitting they’ve moved too far in the wrong direction. If they come to terms with that being what they have done, maybe we’ll the divide in this country begin to heal as they become increasingly more centrist.
Several Democrats support the Laken Riley Act, an immigration reform bill that passed the House on Tuesday: 48 Democrats in the lower chamber voted for the bill, an increase of 11 votes from that faction during the last Congress, according to Punchbowl.
“We should pursue every opportunity around border security and immigration reform,” Ohio Democratic Rep. Greg Landsman said during his talk with Punchbowl. “That’s number one, and number two is getting costs down,” he continued.
As the bill advances, Michigan Democratic Sen. Gary Peters, Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, and other Democratic members of the upper chamber are expected to back the effort. Many of the Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act hail from swing districts or states and could face difficult re-election battles in two years, but others are from more solidly blue districts.
“Fetterman has called on his Democratic colleagues to seek some level of bipartisanship with the Trump administration,” The report finished.
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