An off-the-cuff endorsement of President Biden final week by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew the ire of progressive voices and activists over the weekend.

The New York Democrat mentioned throughout a podcast interview with “Pod Save America” that she’d again Mr. Biden, given the incumbent’s two major challengers — Marianne Williamson and Robert Kennedy Jr. — for the Democratic nomination.

“I believe, given that field, yes,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez mentioned.

“I think he’s done quite well, given the limitations that we have,” she mentioned. “I do think that there are ebbs and flows.”

The endorsement from one of the crucial far-left Democrats in Congress and member of the so-called “Squad” failed to take a seat properly with progressives off Capitol Hill.

The former press secretary for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential marketing campaign, Briahna Joy Gray, chastised each her ex-boss and Ms. Ocasio-Cortez for giving Mr. Biden’s reelection bid their seals of approval.

“Endorsing Joe Biden now is a betrayal of progressive interests. It was true of Bernie Sanders’ endorsement & its true of AOC,” Ms. Gray tweeted. “*Most* Democrats don’t want Biden to run. Bernie and AOC are tragically out of step w/ the movement & the moment.”

Progressive journalist Cenk Uygur instructed the pair’s endorsements had been “way, way too early.”

“First, this primary hasn’t even begun, let alone ended,” the “Young Turks” host tweeted. “Second, you’re enabling a very mediocre record. [Mr. Biden] gave Manchin more than he gave progressives. That should not be rewarded, especially this early.”

Ajamu Baraka, a liberal activist and organizer for Black Alliance for Peace, additionally piled on, tweeting that “AOC is such a fraud.”

The left-wing group Occupy Democrats was an outlier, siding with Ms. Ocasio-Cortez as a result of they mentioned the celebration can be stronger with unity.

“She’s right!” the group’s account tweeted. “Biden’s second term will be even better than his historically [successful] first term as long as we band together to reelect him and give him a mandate in the House and Senate.”

To that time, Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison preached the identical message of unity Sunday. He warned third-party candidates, such because the Green Party bid by educational Cornel West, that “this is not the time to experiment.”

“This is not the time to play around on the margins,” Mr. Harrison mentioned on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki.” “What we see is a lot of folks who want to be relevant and try to be relevant in these elections and not looking at the big picture that we are not going to — we got to reelect Joe Biden.”

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