2020, The Dems

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It may be time to draw the curtain closed for this actress, it seems the 'background'-crew have grown weary of
her poor performance.

AOC's top staffers Resign:
Firebrand Democrat's Chief of Staff and her Communications Director announce they are both
leaving her team after a string of controversies.

*Two of the top members of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's teams are leaving
*Saikat Charkrabarti, Chief of Staff, left Friday for a climate change nonprofit 
*Corbin Trent, Director of Communications, will move onto her 2020 campaign
*Trent will keep the same role, the same as he did for her 2018 congressional run

'Two top members of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's team are leaving the lawmaker's office. 
Saikat Chakrabarti, 33, her Chief of Staff left on Friday, and Corbin Trent, Director of Communications, is due
for a move too. Chakrabarti will work for a nonprofit focused on raising awareness of climate change and trying
to further the Green New Deal.


Chakrabari (left), 33, has left Ocasio-Cortez's team to join a climate change group
aimed at furthering the Green New Deal.
Corbin Trent (right) is taking a more modest jump to AOC's 2020 reelection campaign,
maintaining his role as Director of Communications.
(Bottom) A helpless woman of colour.

Meanwhile Trent has agreed to work throughout August before transitioning across to her 2020 reelection campaign,
according to the Intercept. This is the same role he held during her first congressional run in 2018.

There she will face-off against Republican Scherie Murray for her congressional seat. 
Murray is a New York business woman who migrated to America from Jamaica as a child. 

In a statement, Trent told the site that the AOC team were 'extraordinary grateful' for Chakrabarti's service and efforts
to improve the lives of people in New York.  He added: 'Saikat’s goal has always been to do whatever he can to help
the larger progressive movement, and we look forward to continuing working with him to do just that.'

Ocasio-Cortez confirmed Trent's move onto the campaign team in comments to the Intercept.
She added that he is 'shifting to our campaign side so we can work on some ambitious comms projects we’ve been
looking forward to working on.' 

Chakrabarti is a Harvard graduate who worked on the Bernie Sanders' 2016 bid to become the Democratic nominee.
He then went onto co-found Justice Democrats, a group trying to elect progressive candidates to congress including
Ocasio-Cortez.


Trent (left), Alexandra Rojas (middle) and Chakrabarti (right), were all part of the Justice
Democrats group.

The new role will allow Chakrabarti to focus us on the Green New Deal, in a position with more power and less scrutiny,
according to the Washington Examiner. The former-Chief of Staff had come under fire, along with other progressive
Democrats, earlier this summer over their use of Twitter.

This included a now-deleted tweet by Chakrabarti where he allegedly called the moderate Democrats the 'New Southern
Democrats.' 'They certainly seem hell bent to do to black and brown people today what the old Southern Democrats did
in the 40s,' he tweeted, according to the Examiner. 

The criticism was aimed at the party after they agreed to spend $4.5 billion on a border relief package, which included
improving conditions in detention facilities. The funding was agreed in separate bills by both the House, controlled by
the Democrats, and the Senate, by the Republicans.

Chakrabarti later tweeted: 'Can we stop calling the Blue Dog Caucus "fiscally conservative but socially liberal?" I missed
the part of fiscal conservativeness or social liberalness that includes wasting $4.5 billion of taxpayer money to put kids in
concentration camps.'


The departures come after tensions between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (left) and the
'Squad' a progressive arm of the Democratic party, including Ocasio Cortez (right) has
appeared to be dying down.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi critiqued members of the progressive arm of the Democratic party in an interview with The
New York Times. She called out four female Democrats known as the 'Squad' describing them as having a 'public whatever
and their Twitter world' who she claimed have no following or power.

The 'Squad' consists of Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley - who also faced controversial
comments from President Trump. It would later be revealed that Pelosi also warned colleagues not to tweet about other
members.

The statement particularly aimed at Ocasio-Cortez and her team, which could have referred to Chakrabarti's comments
online. The New York congresswoman later told the Washington Post that she thought Pelosi's words were 'outright
disrespectful.'   

AOC's office have since confirmed to the Examiner that Chakrabarti's departure was decided before and unrelated to
the public clashes with House leadership...'

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