Ocasio Cortez’s Agenda For Biden Seems to be Working

WATCH: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims this will happen if we don’t address climate change

Joe Biden – along with Obama – has a fairly disastrous track record when it comes to environmental protections backfiring on our industry and economy.

In 2008 then-candidate Barack Obama said, “if somebody wants to build a coal power plant they can, it’s just that it will bankrupt them.” Sure enough, that’s what he did through regulations.

That’s the legacy of former Vice President Joe Biden, one of the newest candidates in the 2020 race. He, along with Obama, presided over the disastrous war on coal that led to the loss of 83,000 coal jobs.

This, however, is NOTHING compared to the disastrous “Green New Deal” Ocasio Cortez and her socialist ilk keep pushing.

Joe Biden, in many ways a self-described “moderate” must now decide – will he stay the course? Or hop on the FULL CRAZY train?

Daniel Turner explains:

But Biden’s nowhere near as extreme as Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, at least as of now. That’s concerning for the environmentalist movement because Biden is currently trouncing the rest of the field in the polls. If he wins the Democratic nomination, they are afraid he will not back their grand vision of “Green New Deal.”

This leaves the environmental left two choices: convince Biden to change his position or deny him the nomination.

They’re beginning first by trying to force him to change his mind, and it explains Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s recent verbal assault on Biden.

She went after the former vice president slamming him over reports that he is considering a “middle ground” climate change plan. Ocasio-Cortez blasted such an idea on behalf of the eco-left.

“This is a dealbreaker. There is no ‘middle ground’ w/ climate denial & delay,” she tweeted.

In a Green New Deal rally at Howard University she referenced Biden’s long D.C. career saying, “If the same politicians who refused to act then are going to try to come back today and say we need to have a ‘middle of the road approach’ to save our lives, that is too much for me.”

These are the warning shots typical of any primary campaign: move to the middle on energy issues and she and her large, enthusiastic following of eco-warriors will walk. Ocasio-Cortez wants to force Biden to adopt the “Green New Deal” as nearly every other 2020 Democratic presidential candidate has done.

And it’s WORKING.

Biden seems to be changing his tune.

“You never heard me say ‘middle of the road.’ I’ve never been middle-of-the-road on the environment,” said Biden. “Tell her… to look at my record. She’ll find that nobody has been more consistent about taking on the environment and a green revolution than I have.”

Biden went on to note that he plans to roll out his energy and environmental plan “shortly,” likely before the end of the month.

Time will tell whether the former vice president will accede to Ocasio-Cortez’s wishes and reject a moderate approach to energy and environmental issues. But if Biden’s latest comments are to be believed, he’s decided that making Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez an enemy would do more harm than good.

Such a leftward lurch will make winning over moderate voters a challenge.

If Joe Biden does cave to the far-left, it will show that he cares more about partisan politics than sound public policy.

You can read this entire piece here. 

It’s scary stuff, folks.

The Dems have decided to blindly jump off the deep end.