Democrats will likely support Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for their party’s nominee in 2028 because “they don’t have a defined leader at this time,” former New York State Committeewoman Scherie Murray, who campaigned for the U.S. House of Representatives against the congresswoman in 2019, told Newsmax Sunday. 

“People do not want to see her at the top of the ticket, but they will prop her up because she’s the best messenger they have right now,” Murray told Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.”

Murray, a member of the Black Americans for Trump Coalition, made her observations in reaction to a new Yale University poll that shows the favored candidates to lead the Democratic Party are former Vice President Kamala Harris and AOC, with the New York Democrat trailing Harris by only a few points.

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