‘Collapse of support’: AOC warns Biden’s poll numbers could signal poor turnout among Dems

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‘It is Biden’s power and responsibility to cancel student debt, nobody else’s’

Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believes Joe Biden is at risk of losing Democratic voters who worked “over time to get him elected” should the US president fail to deliver on key progressive policies, she said during an interview with NY1 Thursday night.

“This is really about the collapse of support among young people, among the Democratic base,” the second-term New York congresswoman told Errol Louis on the NY1 political program Inside City Hall. “They aren’t necessarily being seen.”

Ms Ocasio-Cortez’s response came from a question on Mr Biden’s falling approval numbers, and whether the administration might, or even should, be open to greenlighting some of those more progessive policies, including the cancellation of student debt.

“It is Biden’s power and responsibility to cancel student debt, nobody else’s,” an enthusiastic Ms Ocasio-Cortez replied.

…A frequent point of contention when this distinction is made by debt relief advocates is that the US president campaigned in 2020 by promising the latter, saying he’d “forgive all undergraduate tuition-related federal student debt from two- and four-year public colleges and universities and private HBCUs and MSIs for debt-holders earning up to $125,000”.

John Smithe

Article URL : https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-biden-poll-numbers-collapse-support-b2043968.html