{"id":32589,"date":"2025-02-06T02:56:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T02:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/former-aoc-chief-of-staff-announces-run-against-pelosi-calls-dems-paralyzed-and-unprepared-under-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T02:56:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T02:56:42","slug":"former-aoc-chief-of-staff-announces-run-against-pelosi-calls-dems-paralyzed-and-unprepared-under-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/former-aoc-chief-of-staff-announces-run-against-pelosi-calls-dems-paralyzed-and-unprepared-under-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Former AOC chief of staff announces run against Pelosi, calls Dems ‘paralyzed and unprepared’ under Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

The former chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a>, D-N.Y., announced Wednesday his intention to run against Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., calling the Democratic Party “paralyzed and unprepared” for President Donald Trump’s second term in office.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a lengthy message on X, Saikat Chakrabarti said he decided to run against the former House speaker, who is seeking a 21st term, after “watching Trump and Elon (Musk) freely unleash chaos in their illegal seizure of government.”<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s become clear to me that the Democratic Party needs new leadership,” he wrote. “I don\u2019t understand how DC\u2019s Democratic leaders are so paralyzed and unprepared for this moment after living through President Trump\u2019s first term \u2014 and after Trump and Elon warned us exactly what they planned to do.”<\/p>\n

PELOSI DEMURS ON IF \u2018EVERYTHING IS OK\u2019 BETWEEN HER AND BIDEN: \u2018YOU\u2019D HAVE TO ASK HIM’<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

While Chakrabarti said he respects the Democratic leader, the country has dramatically changed since her early days in Washington. He noted that Pelosi intervened to block Ocasio-Cortez from becoming chair of the powerful House Committee on Oversight and Reform<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“When Nancy Pelosi was first elected to Congress, you could buy a home on a single income. A summer job could pay for college,” he wrote. “Republicans believed in climate change and respected election results. Now, the things that defined the American Dream \u2014 being able to afford health care, education, a home, and raise a family \u2014 are impossible for most people.”<\/p>\n

He added that the Republican Party<\/a> is “overtly conspiratorial and anti-democracy.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

AOC’S ‘RED LIGHT DISTRICT’ PLAGUED BY CRIME AS DEMOCRAT WHO HELPED HER RISE TO POWER SAYS SHE ‘DISAPPEARED’<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“The Democratic Party needs to stop acting like it’s competing against a normal political party that plays by the rules, and it needs a bold vision for how to raise living standards, quality of life and security for all Americans,” he said. “America is stuck, and Americans want real solutions that are as big as the problems we face.”<\/p>\n

In his campaign, Chakrabarti said he plans to talk about problems that need solving for San Francisco<\/a>, the U.S. and the Democratic Party.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chakrabarti, who helped manage\u00a0Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s upstart 2018 campaign, left his chief of staff position in 2019 after drawing the ire of Democrats when he publicly criticized party moderates during policy spats<\/u><\/a> between progressive members and party leadership.<\/p>\n

That year, he tweeted that\u00a0Rep.\u00a0Sharice Davids, D-Kansas, one of the first two Native American women to serve in Congress, enabled a racist system\u00a0after she voted in favor of a Senate border bill not backed by progressives. A month later, Chakrabarti described\u00a0centrist Democrats who blocked a liberal-backed emergency\u00a0border bill as the\u00a0“new Southern Democrats.”<\/p>\n

They\u00a0“certainly seem hell bent to do to black and brown people today what the old Southern Democrats<\/a> did in the 40s,” he wrote in a now-deleted post.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital has reached out to Pelosi.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The former chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., announced Wednesday his intention to run against Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., calling the Democratic Party “paralyzed and unprepared” for President Donald Trump’s second term in office.\u00a0 In a lengthy message on X, Saikat Chakrabarti said he decided to run against the former House speaker, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}