Joe Biden Tells HBO That Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is ‘Not The Future Of The Party’

Former Vice President Joe Biden just declared war on “the squad.”

In an on-screen interview with Axios, which will air this weekend on HBO, Biden fired back against allegations that the Democratic Party has moved leftward, and suggested that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and other recently elected progressives don’t represent the future of the party as much as they represent a new party, entirely separate from the Democrats’ apparatus.

Asked about whether the rise of progressive Democrats and “Democratic socialists” were a reaction to Hillary Clinton’s dramatic loss to now-President Donald Trump in 2016, Biden demurred.