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Originally Posted by Dezzy

I imagine most of them, the right wing/republican spin isn't really working against them. The whole push to make Ilhan Omar seem anti-semitic repeatedly falls flat, the focus on AOC just makes the right look weak and every time they mock her for being a bartender, they alienate their base. Every attack against them is s kamikaze attack since the right hurt themselves more than they hurt them.

Unless the Dems decide to get rid of AOC in damage control for the party:

New York Democrats Could Eliminate Ocasio-Cortez’s District After 2020
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is prepared for the possibility that Democrats in New York could redraw her district after the 2020 election, she told The Intercept in an interview.

Following the 2020 census, every state will draw new district boundaries to reflect changes in the population, the political implications of which will stretch for at least the next decade. In 2014, New York approved a constitutional amendment establishing a nonpartisan redistricting commission, which is set to take over the redistricting process starting in 2020. The 10-member commission, meant to be independent from the legislature, is made up of individuals selected by leaders from the state Senate and Assembly, and the original eight members pick two additional members.

But Ocasio-Cortez’s most determined adversaries are not partisan Republicans, but Democrats who say that she has been a disruptive influence. The Hill recently reported that at least one member of Congress has been urging New York party leaders to recruit a Democratic primary challenger to Ocasio-Cortez. But the news led to a surge of donations to Ocasio-Cortez, suggesting that a more efficient means of ousting her might be simply to eliminate her district.