‘The party looks like a failure’: AOC’s former chief of staff on his challenge to Nancy Pelosi

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‘The party looks like a failure’: AOC’s former chief of staff on his challenge to Nancy Pelosi

The SceneSaikat Chakrabarti arrived in Washington six years ago, the chief of staff to New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, eager to work on the “most ambitious, the boldest, the biggest things we can.” He left eight months into that job, moving to San Francisco to advocate for the Green New Deal. Chakrabarti launched his own campaign for Congress last week, against former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — but he didn’t talk to Ocasio-Cortez until…