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Why AOC should run for president in 2028

www.salon.com Why Trump is terrified of AOC

After Zohran Mamdani's win, Trump reveals how scared he is to face Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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I agree that she should run, but as an independent candidate because the DNC will never give her a honest shot in the primaries.
Americans however are unlikely to elect her especially due to electoral college as there are plenty racist and misogynistic voters in the swing states.
But if she’s able to raise money in the process to give her a real shot, US will finally have a viable third party candidate. If it looks like she’ll only split the Dem vote without winning, the raised money can be used to support progressive candidates in local elections.
Either way, I think US needs a progressive liberals party and soon because there’s a lot of House and Senate seat elections coming up and as we have seen from the GOP playbook, local elections are as relevant and influential as the national ones.
- as an informed she'll split the vote.
  it's there a way to force a form of ranked choice voting?
  she runs for independent, but the votes are for delegates that chose the president, so if she gets 10% of the votes, the delegated should vote for the other less fash candidat, while if she does get the majority she gets the presidency
  on top of that, she can make the delegate vote conditional for some policies. so even if she gets 5% of the votes she can dictate the delegates to vote for whichever candidate signs a legally binding contract to do some prewritten executive actions on day one, like abolish Ice. release all imprisonment migrants, grant re-entry visas to deported...
  so even if she only gets a few votes, she can have a lot of influence and power.
  I just started thinking about this today,and I fear there are more complications. but I'm principle, could this work?
  
  Delegates are not granted proportionally. If the Democratic nominee gets 30% of the vote in a state, AOC gets 30% of the vote, and the Republican gets 35% of the vote, all the electors are Republican.
  
  do some states have paetial wins? if its 50% each candidate gets half the delegates?
  
  Two states allocate votes by congressional district, but that's just first past the post at a smaller level and the spoiler issue remains. You need proportional representation or some actual form of transferable vote to avoid it.
  
  TBH, I got the idea, I knew there's loads I don't know, and choose to post instead of asking chatGPT. prefer answer from real people.
  
  Yes, it could, which is why (IIRC) 16 US states now have laws that partially or fully ban ranked choice voting.
  
  land of the free, laws specific designed to ban people's choices.
  
  At a minimum splitting the vote would mean that they are coming from the "didn't vote" pool (which has been the majority in pretty much every election for decades now). This is a strong signal that the DNC needs to move left or become irrelevant because a new party would simply split. For example of this working see the republican party becoming the maga party for that reason. Doing this will also add more weight to our protests.
  
  yhea, the dems becoming right wing is what the donors want, but it won't get votes
  making the democrats a dead party, unless they tell the donors to fuck off.

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