AOC Blasts Rahm Emanuel’s DNC Bid, Calls It Donor Class ‘Disease’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. has strongly condemned the possibility of Rahm Emanuel leading the Democratic National Committee, calling it a symptom of the party’s donor-driven politics, Newsweek reported.

“There is a disease in Washington of Democrats who spend more time listening to the donor class than working people,” Ocasio-Cortez posted on X. “If you want to know the seed of the party’s political crisis, that’s it.”

The congresswoman’s criticism came after Democratic strategist David Axelrod proposed Emanuel, the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, as a leading candidate to replace DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison, whose term ends in March.