NYT’s Burns: AOC Feels the Threat of a Primary Puts Useful Pressure on Schumer

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BURNS: "So the people I spoke to, who have been in touch with her, have said that she is not currently proceeding towards a campaign, that she says she hasn’t made up her mind but she's also not taking any active steps to lay the groundwork for doing that. But that she feels that the threat of a primary puts a useful kind of pressure on Chuck Schumer. That if there was no possibility he would face a serious primary or potentially a really mortally serious primary, which a race against her very well might be, he would feel more comfortable tracking towards the center and making Joe Manchin the center of gravity in the Democratic Caucus as opposed to the much more complicated picture we have right now."