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   New York’s firebrand progressive congresswoman, Alexandria   
   Ocasio-Cortez, wouldn’t say on Sunday whether she would endose   
   Joe Biden for reelection in 2024 amid questions over whether Mr   
   Biden will even run all.   
      
   She was interviewed on CNN’s State of the Union by the network’s   
   Dana Bash, who asked the congresswoman whether “you would   
   support him”, given statements from the president indicating   
   that he plans to run for reelection despite already being the   
   oldest person to ever take office in the White House.   
      
   “I think we should endorse when we get to it, but I believe that   
   the president has been doing a very good job so far,” she said   
   of Mr Biden.   
      
   “You know, if the president chooses to run again in 2024, I mean   
   first of all I’m focused on winning this majority right now,” Ms   
   Ocasio-Cortez added, laughing. “So we’ll cross that bridge when   
   we get to it, but I think that if the president has a vision   
   then that’s something that we’re all certainly willing to   
   entertain and examine when the time comes.”   
      
   The non-answer is significant given recent media reports   
   indicating that Bernie Sanders, the progressive senator who was   
   Mr Biden’s most serious challenger for the Democratic nomination   
   in 2020, has not ruled out a primary bid against the sitting   
   president in 2024.   
      
   Currently chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Mr Sanders   
   has been a strong supporter of the president’s Build Back Better   
   agenda in the face of opposition from centrists like Joe Manchin   
   but has also called for the president to take action on   
   progressive priorities including cancelling student loan debt.   
      
   Ms Ocasio-Cortez, who enjoys her own substantial following on   
   the progressive left rivaling that of Mr Sanders and only a   
   handful of others, endorsed Mr Sanders’s candidacy for the   
   Democratic nomination in late 2019 shortly after the Vermont   
   senator suffered a mild stroke that some worried would knock him   
   out of the race.   
      
   She remains a member of the so-called “Squad”, a growing number   
   of progressive Democrats in the House who have notably broken   
   with their Democratic colleagues on a number of issues ranging   
   from support for military aid for Israel’s government and   
   recently the decision to uncouple the bipartisan infrastructure   
   compromise legislation from Mr Biden’s Build Back Better Act, a   
   strategic move that many on the left blamed for the subsequent   
   failure of the latter legislation.   
      
   https://news.yahoo.com/aoc-dodges-backing-biden-2024-   
   184534296.html   
      
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