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A 14-13 procedural vote inside the Democratic Socialists of America has widened a factional rift that the organization's growing national influence cannot easily absorb, with the National Political Committee rejecting a proposal for a nationwide all-member poll on the 2028 presidential endorsement and kicking that decision to the group's convention process, likely delaying any formal action until August 2027.
The case for that timing is institutional continuity. The risk is that it leaves the roughly 120,000-member organization on the sideline as speculation about a Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez presidential run accelerates.
The Groundwork caucus, a DSA faction, had pushed hard for the poll and an immediate endorsement of Ocasio-Cortez.
Their argument: early backing would give the organization an influential early role in 2028 presidential politics and, in the caucus's framing, "build power for socialism." Gustavo Gordillo, co-chair of the DSA's New York City chapter (which sends approximately $2 million per year in national dues) accused the committee of overturning convention and stripping rank-and-file members of their right to vote.
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