As another onslaught of Democrats calls for President Biden to step aside, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez insisted that they don't want to just replace Joe, they want to get rid of Vice President Kamala Harris too.
In a late night screed on Instagram live, the New York Democrat said it is 'horse s***' that Democrats are giving anonymous quotes to journalists about how they don't believe Biden can win the election.
'If that's your opinion, and if that's what you think is best for the country, put your name on it, okay?' she said. 'That's a bunch of horse s***.'
As another onslaught of Democrats calls for President Biden to step aside, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez insisted that they don't want to just replace Joe, they want to get rid of Vice President Kamala Harris too
The congresswoman said that former President Trump is 'also very old, and a racist, and a neo-Nazi.'
She called out a 'lack of thought' from Democratic leadership who did not want Biden to run but did not have a fool-proof alternate plan.
She warned that much of the newly anti-Biden Democratic establishment would also push out Harris.
'I'm just going to say it. If you think that there is consensus among the people who want Joe Biden to leave that Kamala, that they will support Kamala, Vice President Harris, you would be mistaken.'
'I'm in these rooms. I see what they say in conversations, Ocasio-Cortez said. 'They are interested in removing the whole ticket.'
'A huge amount of donor class and a huge amount of these elites, and a huge amount of these folks in these rooms that I see that are pushing for President Biden to not be the nominee ,also are not interested in seeing the Vice President being the nominee. Will they win out on that? I don't know.'
'To a certain extent, I don't care what name is on there. We are not losing. I don't know about you, but my community does not have the option to lose,' she went on. 'My people are the first ones deported. They're the first ones put in Rikers, they're the first ones whose families are killed by war.'
'I'm not here to tell you that if Joe Biden is the nominee, he's definitely going to win because I don't think if anybody is the nominee, we're definitely going to win,' Ocasio-Cortez also said on Friday.
'There's no safe option,' she admitted.
'I can't tell you all how shameful it feels to hear all these leaks about what Democratic leaders are staying and not to have a single one of them out here confirming or denying it,' the Minnesota Democrat and progressive 'Squad' member wrote on X.
'It's a lack of leadership and it's making all Democrats look bad. Whatever this mess leads to will not undo the damage that has already been inflicted. May God help us all.'
The walls are closing in on Joe Biden fast as his closest allies turn on him - reports say that President Barack Obama urged him to reconsider his 'viability' and that both ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer expressed that their Democrats thought he should step aside.
It comes as Biden has tested positive for Covid-19 and is holed up with First Lady Jill in their Delaware home.
A new Axios report citing senior Democratic sources said that Biden could drop out as soon as this weekend.
President Joe Biden, sick with covid, is becoming increasingly isolated
A defiant Biden has insisted publicly that he will be the Democratic nominee and only God or a 'medical condition' would compel him to bow out. So far, he's been supported by family members, first lady Jill Biden and son Hunter, in the decision to stay put.
Despite the campaign's best efforts to do damage control, Biden appeared at times confused, rambling and irritable in a Monday evening interview with NBC's Lester Holt. The official line remains that top Democrats didn't pressure the president to quit.
And that Biden 'is not wavering on anything. The president has made his decision,' according to deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks at an event Thursday on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
'It feels the most real it's ever been,' one senior House Democratic aide told DailyMail.com of the pressure to drop out.
Progressive activists have been left scratching their heads as Squad House members have become Biden's last stalwart of support - even at a time when it is relatively safe to come out against him after the June 27 debate.
Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., have all stood firmly behind Joe Biden remaining at the top of their ticket as now close to 20 House Democrats have urged him to step down.
'Joe Biden is our nominee. He is not leaving this race. He is in this race and I support him,' Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., told reporters last week.
Reps. Cori Bush, D-Mo., and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., have made comments supporting the president.