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Bernie balks at AOC question, nearly storms off Sunday morning set

March 24, 2025 | | Print Article

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) lost his cool during an interview with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl and nearly stormed off the set over a question about whether Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) could join him in the Senate.

Sanders has been whipping up the party’s rabidly left-wing base along with AOC with the duo headlining a series of “Fighting Oligarchy” rallies in the western U.S. The octogenarian multimillionaire took a break from the roadshow to chat with Karl on Sunday’s edition of “This Week,” but the segment went off the rails when the prickly senator objected to the reporter’s line of inquiry.

After praising the diva congresswoman as “extraordinary,” Sanders objected to Karl’s legitimate question about whether he’d like to see her in the Senate, refusing to give what would likely be seen by many as an endorsement.

“Right now, we have, as I said, just a whole lot of people in the Congress. OK, Jonathan. Thanks,” Sanders, answered, getting up from his seat and preparing to head to the exit.

“Well, I ask you – you know, you want to do nonsense, do nonsense. No, I don’t want to talk about inside the Beltway stuff. I got 32,000 people,” he huffed, referring to the size of the crowd that turned out at Friday’s rally in Denver, CO, a Democrat stronghold and Mecca for illegal aliens.

Buzz has been building about an AOC challenge to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in the 2028 Democrat primary after the Senate minority leader infuriated his party by voting to end the filibuster and keep the federal government open.

The longtime senator has been dubbed a “sellout” and “traitor” among other things for refusing to go along with the political arsonists by punishing millions of Americans to stick it to President Donald J. Trump who supported the continuing resolution to fund the government. And AOC is in prime position to advance to the next rung of the political ladder by capitalizing on the discontent with Schumer.

But apparently, she has other plans and her heavily hyped rallies with the socialist fossil could be a springboard to a 2028 presidential run with a recent CNN survey showing that respondents believe that she “best reflects” the “core values” of the modern Democratic Party.

In the same interview, Sanders was forced to acknowledge that there are things that Trump has done that he doesn’t condemn, giving the president props on cracking down on deadly fentanyl and the illegal alien invasion.

While the near walk-off made him look like an ill-tempered old man, his praising of Trump’s early policy successes could be far more damaging in a party that sees anything other than full resistance as collaborating with Nazis.

Sanders’ rallies have already sparked speculation about a Bernie-AOC ticket but also underscore the party’s age problems after it shoved Joe Biden out the door last year. If elected, he would be over 90 years old by the time his term ended.

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