Atlanta – The multimillionaire heir and the former cantinero.
Many Democrats have been inside and outside the center of attention such as the party Look for effective counters to President Donald Trump and his second administration. But two disparate figures, the governor. JB Pritzker of Illinois and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez In New York, they have seen their national profiles increase delivering messages that excite a demoralized and fractured match.
The governor, a 60 -year -old heir from the Hyatt hotel, and the congresswoman, the 35 -year -old woman with working -class roots, won her first elections in 2018. Both have urged the massive resistance and accused her party of not fighting anymore. Each one has stood out enough to attract acute responses from Trump’s loyal ones.
But as messengers, Pritzker and Ocasio-Cortez could not be more different. And his arguments, despite some overlap, are different enough to raise Family questions For the Democrats: Should Trump make their challenges about threats to democracy and national stability, as Pritzker has done, or portray it as a corrupt billionaire that exacerbates an unequal economy, as Occasio-Cortez does? And beyond the message itself, what qualities should have the best messenger?
What links them, said a prominent democrat, is “assertiveness.”
“People want Trump and Trumpism to meet the same passion and strength,” said the president of the Urban National League, Marc Moral, a former Mayor of New Orleans deeply connected in democratic policy. On that front, he added, Pritzker and Ocasio-Cortez “are effective national figures, but in very different ways.”
Pritzker was born on the Baby Boomers bridge and generation X in an extensive family now rooted in democratic policy. Like Trump, he inherited great wealth, but criticizes the president as a poser on working class issues.
He chaired the Illinois Human Rights Commission before running for governor. In the position, it has signed a minimum salary increase in Illinois and is an ally of unions. His family’s hotels are unionized, which makes them regular options for official Democratic Party events.
When Democratic President Joe Biden Left the 2024 campaignPritzker was floated as a replacement. He did not make visible movements, the vice president quickly supported Kamala Harris and acted as the de facto host of his nomination convention in his native state.
“Take it from a real billionaire, Trump is rich in one thing: stupidity,” Pritzker said in Chicago.
Since Harris’s defeat, Pritzker has behaved like a future candidate. One of the Jewish politicians with the greatest profile of the nation, lit liberals when comparing the Trump administration with the third Reich.
“If you think I am reacting exaggeratedly and playing the alarm too soon, consider this: it took the Nazis for a month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic,” the governor said that his joint budget and the state of the state of the state on February 19.
Go to the Faithful Fiesta In the traditional state of early nomination of New Hampshire, Pritzker regretted Democrats “to do nothing”, he asked the party’s bursts to put aside “decades of Rancio decor” and urged voters to the streets.
“Never before in my life have I asked for mass protests, for mobilization, interruption, but now I am,” he said. The Democrats, he added, “must punish (Republicans) in the soap box and then punish them at the polls.”
It was enough for Trump’s assistant Senior Stephen Miller accuse Pritzker of inciting violence. Pritzker did not waste the time he returned the volley, calling it “terrible hypocrisy” so that Trump’s allies complain the siege of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and the pellets of Trump’s rufflers.
Ocasio-Cortez is a progressive millenary who won titles in International Relations and Economics and worked as a waiter and waiter before entering politics. With the support of Progressive Working Families Party, he expelled a Democrat from the upper chamber, Joe Crowley, in a 2018 primary.
Like Trump, he takes advantage of millions of followers on social networks. Also as Trump, she is an economic populist. But she comes from the left wing of American politics and without anti -immigration and cultural conservatism of the right wing of Trump or alliances with the multimillionaire elites of business and technology.
Recently he has headed the tour of “Lucha Oligarchy” with the SEN. Bernie SandersI-VT., Twice presidential candidate. The tour has attracted tens of thousands of people throughout the country, especially including reliable Republican states, often with multitude of overflow out of many stops.
The next political movement of Ocortez seems less safe than that of Pritzker. It is seen as a possible main challenger of Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader of the New York Senate, and recently was enough to be constitutionally eligible for the presidency. But she seems to be sure to inherit the mantle of the 83 -year -old Sanders movement.
She criticizes Trump freely. But she leans more in broader economic and social criticisms she has made since her first offer of the house and that Sanders has offered for decades.
“For years, we have known that our political system has dominated slowly, but surely, it has been dominated by great money and billionaires and again and again, we have seen how our government and laws respond more to corporations and lobbyists than to everyday people and voters,” he said in Folsom, California. She advocated “living wages … stable housing … guaranteed medical attention” and criticized “the dark money agenda to keep our salaries low and loot our public products such as Social Security and Medicare.”
He also played his roots: “Of the waitress who is now talking to you today, I can tell you: impossible is nothing.”
Ocasio-Cortez and Pritzker are allies against a common opponent, Trump, and not with each other. Ocsio-Cortez and Pritzker advisors did not answer the questions.
Adam Green, co -founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, argues that Pritzker could be more attractive as a “traitor to his class” in the tradition of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt, author of the East Coast, wrote the federal expansion of the New Deal to combat the great depression of the 1930s.
“How powerful would it be if a billionaire were the one that helped lead the load against corrupt billionaires and corrupt multimillionaire corporations that are trying to decipher the Constitution and loot the US people?” Green said, adding that “continuous silence” about “multimillionaire problems” should disqualify Pritzker. “We have to talk to the system of shaking of the system that people want to see.”
Matt Bennett, co -founder of Third Way, who generally supports the centrist Democrats, replied that Pritzker could bring a “more stable” version of Trump’s argument that his wealth and success is an asset. Trump’s greatest responsibility, said Bennett, is the “chaos” that negatively affects people’s lives.
“People are very angry with Elon Musk, but not because it’s rich,” Bennett said about Tesla’s CEO led by the Trump government efficiency department. “They are angry with him because he is destroying our government and doing it in a destructive way.”
A relative of the governor, Rachel Pritzker, presides over the Third Way trustee.
OCCASSIO-CORTEZ is often criticized by more moderate Democrats, including Michigan Elissa Slotkin senatorwhich has also positioned himself as a thought leader in the party. Slotkin recently suggested that the word “oligarchy” did not resonate with the voters of the working class. It was an implicit reprimand of the occasion-cortez-wave tour.
Shortly after Slotkin’s comments on the oligarchy, Ocasio-Cortez published in X: “Many politicians on both sides of the hall feel threatened by the growing class consciousness.”
Bennett said that Democrats who emerge as party leaders, including the 2028 nominee, will be those that offer solutions for the frustration of voters “about their needs that are not met.” It is a notion that Green insisted that it is indistinguishable to criticize the billionaire class, together with fiscal and labor policies that drive wealth and income gaps in the United States.
In any direction that Democrats choose, said Bennett, Ocasio-Cortez has assured his place as a national voice.
“She is very good in what she does. It’s formidable,” he said. “And anyone who is in the left center that denies that he is joking.”
