Fox News’ Jesse Watters compared Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to an unripe banana Wednesday, advising her to get married and have a baby before she considers a presidential run.
“That’s AOC. She’s not ripe enough to run for president,” Watters said on Fox News’ “The Five” Wednesday. “First, she has to get married… and then you have to get pregnant.”
Prompted by: political strategist’s claimWatters recommended that Ocasio-Cortez be the Democratic presidential candidate in 2024. He suggested that she get married, get pregnant, and start a family before running for president. His reasoning is double-folded: having a family will bring positive media attention to her and make her more popular. “more mature person.”
“Once you have the baby, you have a family and the media loves it,” Watters said. “They eat it up. And it makes you more of a mature person.”
Watters continued mapping out what he envisioned for the politician’s career, saying she should run for Senate in New York and then run for president. “Right now she’s not really seen as a serious person,”Watters explained that Watters’s trajectory would be better. “childish”Reputation, noting that she “fakes her arrest”Gives and takes “makeup tips.”
Fox News host Fox News returned to the banana analogy, stating that she would be in 2032. “ripe” enough to run for president, noting that she can’t “unify the party right now.”
“Most of [the party] hate[s] her,” Watters said, “and I think after 10 years she could unify the party,”Noting that he was unsure if Ocasio Cortez could win today’s states of Michigan, North Carolina and Wisconsin.
The Hill Publiziert an opinion piece yesterday that claimed Ocasio-Cortez was Democrats’ “best shot”Former President Donald Trump will be reelected in 2024. “cultivated a following beyond politics.”