The not-so-inside talk has been whether Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s four-woman war against Nancy Pelosi would earn her a Democratic primary challenger next year, but her high-profile antics have drawn another Republican into the race to represent heavily Democratic NY14.
Fox News reports that Scherie Murray, a 38-year-old New York businesswoman and Jamaica native (she emigrated as a child), has launched a campaign to unseat AOC next year. She told Fox, “There is a crisis in Queens, and it’s called AOC.” Murray went on to say, “Instead of focusing on us, she’s focusing on being famous. Mainly rolling back progress and authoring the job-killing Green New Deal and killing the Amazon-New York deal.”
The polls might just bear out Murray’s complaint against Ocasio-Cortez. The first-term congresscritter was put on the defensive earlier this week, blasting a negative new poll – conducted by her own party – as a “mass distortion of reality.” In a nationwide survey, it was revealed that 74% of people recognized AOC by name, but only 22% viewed her favorably. The poll was conducted by Democrats hoping to identify potential swing voters for 2020. Instead what they found was that the party’s oh-so-public up-and-comers are almost universally loathed. Ellie Bufkin reported for the Washington Examiner :
Fellow “squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar was recognized by 53% of participants and viewed favorably by only 9%. Other questions on the poll included approval of socialist policies, which showed only 18% of participants viewed favorably. Democrats looking ahead to the 2020 election characterized the results as, “Socialism is toxic to these voters.”
Back in the Bronx, Murray agreed, saying that socialism is “far to the left and it is not connecting with everyday Americans.”
You’ll notice that Murray doesn’t mention Donald Trump or her own party affiliation, which might be smart given that Cook rates New York’s 14th Congressional District at D+29 – a daunting figure for any Republican to overcome. Nevertheless, Murray is actually the fifth Republican to announce a challenge. She joins a crowded field already including former police officer John Cummings, contractor Miguel Hernandez, journalist Ruth Papazian, and businessman Antoine Tucker.Ocasio-Cortez is unpopular even at home, where people presumably know her best. The Daily Caller reported in May that her favorability rating was just 20% with her own voters, with an unfavorable rating of 44% – and climbing. Establishment Democrats might be able to endure the embarrassment of primarying their own member, in order to save a safe seat from a possible GOP upset.
No matter how it plays out, you can be sure AOC will ride the national headlines all the way to her final destination, wherever and whenever that might be. Given her sky-high negatives, it’s hard to see how that could be bad news for Republicans, and maybe even good news for exhausted voters in the Bronx. As for Scherie Murray, the GOP is always in need of fresh faces, and a female-minority-immigrant-millennial-entrepreneur might be one the freshest of all.
I had to post this, this is a awesome video of New Challenger to AOC and she is a conservative, a immigrant from Jamaica!
I hope she wins!
Ask the people how much better there lives have gotten after voting in AOC and they will realize she has made a mockery of the people who live there and not bettering their situation one bit.
And AOC will start calling her a racist from day one LOL.
We can only hope she is not a Romney-type Republican, but someone who will support the President’s agenda to keep America’s exceptionalism.
PLUS…the big witch Pelosi already said NY’s 14th is soooooo stupid that they’d vote for a glass of water with a D in front of it. Time for them to wise up and start voting out their glasses of water candidates.
She can try, but this women is really smart and will put AOC in her place. The other thing you have to consider here is AOC never had an open debate with her opponents before being elected to her current position Why is that? Because she was casted for the role by the social democrats! Every thing she is saying in public is scripted by her Advisors Corbin Trent and Saikat Chakrabarti two well known Che Guevara Marxists. The minute AOC is forced into an open debate of ideas is where she will fail miserably and I am waiting for such a time to happen!
Debates are one thing…she not only has to beat AOC in those but she also has to beat all of the money George Soros will put into the race. Not to mention his history of rigging elections in areas with significant D control already in place.
I think Romney types are in a class all by themselves. This woman from what I have been learning is a successful business woman that has been very active in her own community which sets her apart from AOC who is too busy being obsessed with fame! Her campaign add is a powerful message that focuses more on values and solving problems for her district and speaks truthfully of AOC’s ineptness to represent her district with zero accomplishments so far.
I am not worrying about the money part, but the rigging part I am skeptical about! Soros put a lot of money in trying to defeat BREXIT and lost billions in doing so! My belief is that sometimes the unexpected happens, and when a televised debate happens and AOC makes a fool of herself with zero accomplishments at the end of the day people, even the stupid ones will catch on! My Guess is that AOC will refuse to have an open debate with this candidate making up some excuse not to, instead she will try to resort to social media to wage her campaign like she did in her last election. I am not sure it will work again for her, as there is a lot of time between now and then and look what she has managed to do so far? Not only destroying her own party’s chances for the presidency but putting a lot of other democratic seats in vulnerable positions that are up for re-election! AOC is a cancer to the entire house and it’s beginning to take its toll on the likes of Hoyer, Pelosi and Schummer!
Sad to see that traditional American neighborhood get flipped like it did. Yuppies took over
I bet AOC is still going to call her a racist anyway.
The beauty and freedom of democracy in a Republic. Don’t sell it out by allowing others to divide and conquer fellow citizens I say…but that’s just me as I trust no one in power or that can influence (read as “buy”) power ;).