Tim Dillon leaves Bernie Sanders in splits with AOC–Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘unity ticket’ pitch

WASHINGTON, DC: Comedian Tim Dillon just floated a 2028 presidential idea so outrageous that Sen. Bernie Sanders couldn’t help but crack up.

During an hour-long sit-down on The Tim Dillon Show on Wednesday, October 22, Sanders was promoting his new book 'Fighting Oligarchy' when he found himself laughing as Dillon pitched a “unity ticket” starring Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

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Sanders was chatting about his endorsement of Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s Democratic Socialist mayoral nominee who is leading his opponents by double digits in most polls.

Dillon teased that maybe Mamdani would pull a political 180 once elected. He joked that Mamdani might “move to the center” once he gets into office and starts cozying up to the billionaire class.

Sanders brushed it off, saying he and Ocasio-Cortez would be hitting the campaign trail for the left-wing favorite. That’s when Dillon dropped the question that left the senator in splits.

“Is she running for president?” Dillon asked of AOC, “How about a unity ticket? Marjorie and Cortez!”

Sanders burst out laughing.

“What about that? Marjorie Taylor Greene and AOC,” Dillon pressed.

“You came up with that idea right here,” Sanders chuckled.

Dillon insisted, “It’s actually my idea. It’s not a bad idea.”

The exchange happened at the tail-end of the podcast, right around the 1 hour 4 minute mark:

It’s no secret that AOC and MTG are like oil and water in Congress. One is a progressive darling, while the other is a MAGA firebrand. But Dillon noted there’s been an interesting shift as Greene has recently been taking aim at Republicans over issues like the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and America’s broken healthcare system.

Bernie Sanders' 2024 post-mortem

As the conversation rolled on, Dillon couldn’t resist poking at the chaos during the 2024 election cycle, especially following Joe Biden’s abrupt campaign collapse.

“Why is there such a cover-up with Biden’s mental decline?” Dillon asked. “Why is there no primary, a quick one even, after he is judged unfit to run? Why is there no transparency there? That’s a huge problem, and I think it delivered — I mean, I know people blame five podcasters, but I think that process helped deliver the country.”

Sanders chimed in on former Vice President Kamala Harris’s failed bid.

“Again, we, let me just say this. You know, I ran against Kamala back in 2020 and I know her, not close, but I know her well and she’s an incredibly intelligent, focused person. And I worked as hard as I could. I ran all over the country to try to get her elected,” Sanders said.

But Harris’ campaign, Sanders argued, was “not focused on the needs of the working class.” Instead, it got swallowed by “money in politics.”

“I think the reason that she lost that election gets back to the point we discussed at the beginning of this podcast and that is money in politics," the Vermont Democrat insisted.

"Kamala did not run a campaign focused on the needs of the working class, didn’t run a campaign focused on healthcare, on economics, and raising the minimum wage, on paid family and medical leave, on housing, on all of the issues that working people are struggling with right now. And I think her not focused on those issues allowed Trump to win, in my view.”