Former AOC chief of staff announces run against Pelosi, calls Dems 'paralyzed and unprepared' under Trump

The erstwhile main of unit to U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., announced Wednesday his volition to tally against Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., calling the Democratic Party "paralyzed and unprepared" for President Donald Trump's 2nd word successful office. 

In a lengthy connection connected X, Saikat Chakrabarti said helium decided to tally against the erstwhile House speaker, who is seeking a 21st term, aft "watching Trump and Elon (Musk) freely unleash chaos successful their amerciable seizure of government."

"It’s go wide to maine that the Democratic Party needs caller leadership," helium wrote. "I don’t recognize however DC’s Democratic leaders are truthful paralyzed and unprepared for this infinitesimal aft surviving done President Trump’s archetypal word — and aft Trump and Elon warned america precisely what they planned to do."

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While Chakrabarti said helium respects the Democratic leader, the state has dramatically changed since her aboriginal days successful Washington. He noted that Pelosi intervened to artifact Ocasio-Cortez from becoming seat of the almighty House Committee connected Oversight and Reform.

"When Nancy Pelosi was archetypal elected to Congress, you could bargain a location connected a azygous income. A summertime occupation could wage for college," helium wrote. "Republicans believed successful clime alteration and respected predetermination results. Now, the things that defined the American Dream — being capable to spend wellness care, education, a home, and rise a household — are intolerable for astir people."

He added that the Republican Party is "overtly conspiratorial and anti-democracy." 

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"The Democratic Party needs to halt acting similar it's competing against a mean governmental enactment that plays by the rules, and it needs a bold imaginativeness for however to rise surviving standards, prime of beingness and information for each Americans," helium said. "America is stuck, and Americans privation existent solutions that are arsenic large arsenic the problems we face."

In his campaign, Chakrabarti said helium plans to speech astir problems that request solving for San Francisco, the U.S. and the Democratic Party. 

Chakrabarti, who helped manage Ocasio-Cortez’s upstart 2018 campaign, near his main of unit presumption successful 2019 aft drafting the ire of Democrats erstwhile helium publically criticized enactment moderates during policy spats betwixt progressive members and enactment leadership.

That year, helium tweeted that Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas, 1 of the archetypal 2 Native American women to service successful Congress, enabled a racist system after she voted successful favour of a Senate borderline measure not backed by progressives. A period later, Chakrabarti described centrist Democrats who blocked a liberal-backed emergency border measure arsenic the "new Southern Democrats."

They "certainly look hellhole bent to bash to achromatic and brownish radical contiguous what the aged Southern Democrats did successful the 40s," helium wrote successful a now-deleted post.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Pelosi.