NewsNation's Chris Cuomo stunned by ‘deranged Democrat' AOC's strong polls: ‘Killing her party'

Yahoo3 days ago

NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo was stunned by recent polls crowning 'deranged' Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a top Democratic Party leader as he tore into the left over its embrace of extremism.
'I'm not picking on AOC. I respect her success in developing a following. I just think she's killing her party,' Cuomo said Tuesday as he discussed the Democratic Party's shift to the left.
'She is a deranged form of Democrat and I'm pointing her out because she's at the top of the food chain.'
A CNN poll earlier this year found that Ocasio-Cortez came out on top when Democrats were asked which leader best reflects the core values of the party.
There was no clear future leader for the Dems, though, according to the poll, since Ocasio-Cortez only received a measly 10% share, trailed by former Vice President Kamala Harris at 9%.
'She ranked higher than Harris, [House Minority Leader Hakeem] Jeffries, [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom, even [former President Barack] Obama, are you kidding me?' an exasperated Cuomo said.
'She couldn't be less about what made the Democratic Party great and I get to say that. She is not a real one.'
Cuomo's attacks on Ocasio-Cortez, whose district covers parts of Queens and the Bronx, came as he laid into the Democratic Party for moving too far left and abandoning moderate voters.
He took illegal immigration as an example of a voting issue that 'resonated with the many, not just MAGA.'
'The majority is not afraid of migrants, as Trump may like, but they are afraid of these guys, Iranian nationals with jihadist sympathies,' Cuomo said.
'You let them in with a laxity that AOC and other radicals insisted on, and the far left is actively embracing people who are the enemy. Pro-Hamas? People who chant 'Globalize the intifada,' the Palestinian uprising characterized by over 130 suicide bombings, really?'
On Wednesday, Cuomo declared the Democratic Party 'dead' after his brother, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, conceded in the New York mayoral primary election to Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-proclaimed socialist who wants to freeze rent prices.
'The Democratic Party is now officially in MAGA mode. We are now, on both sides, in a period of extremism,' Cuomo said on his NewsNation show.
'The same way MAGA played with the prejudices of white nationalism, you're seeing an identical dynamic on the left with prejudices like tacitly supporting extreme Islamism or targeting Jews.'
Cuomo was fired from CNN in 2021 after a law firm found he aided his brother, then the governor, in defending himself against sexual harassment allegations.
Andrew Cuomo resigned as governor that same year after an investigation overseen by New York's attorney general concluded that 11 women were telling the truth when they accused him of sexual assault and harassment.