Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, seems to be taking a leaf out of former President Barack Obama’s book.
Juan Williams penned an op-ed for The Hill suggesting that the progressive lawmaker might be trying to recreate “Barack Obama’s 2004 appeal to Democrats” as the party tries to stir up the black community ahead of the midterms. After such a profound loss in 2024, the party is desperate to get back to its roots and dig up any support it can still find among minority voting blocs.
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Rep. @AOC: I’m here with a simple message. We stand together. What happens to Georgia, happens to New York. What happens to Tennessee, happens to California. What happens to Louisiana happens to all of us. We are not divided by state, we are united by our humanity and common… pic.twitter.com/tQASdgTa7V
— Headquarters (@HQNewsNow) May 11, 2026
“What happens to Georgia, happens to New York. What happens to Tennessee, happens to California. What happens to Louisiana, happens to all of us, Ebenezer, because this is America. We are not divided by state. We are united by our humanity and common citizenship,” AOC said during her impassioned speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
She also bashed redistricting efforts by Republicans, opting to frame them as racially divisive and unfair to black voters.
“We are not going back!” the lawmaker cried.
This is the same location where, in 2004, Obama attempted to cross racial lines to unite Americans with a call for unity.
“Black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America: There is a United States of America,” he said at the time. He would go on to win the presidential elections in 2008 and 2012, largely thanks to the participation of black and Hispanic voters. However, in 2024, President Donald Trump received a shocking number of votes from those same communities, proving that minority voting blocs are not a monolith.
Williams noted that polls indicate a fading support for the president among minority voters, something that the left may be trying to capitalize on.
“While 59 percent of voters disapproved of Trump in a May New York Times-Siena poll, 83 percent of Blacks and 71 percent of Hispanics viewed him negatively,” he wrote. “Trump had about 40 percent support among Hispanics in March of 2025. It is now down to about 25 percent. A May UnidosUS poll found that among Latinos who voted for Trump in 2024 a quarter of them now say ‘if they could do it over again, they would not vote for him.'”
Ultimately, the exposure is not only good for Democrats in the upcoming midterms, but could serve to further solidify AOC’s place as a 2028 presidential race front-runner.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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