Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she hasn’t ruled out a potential run for president or Senate in 2028
Ocasio-Cortez said her focus remains on the midterms, but she did not rule out a 2028 presidential run or a Senate challenge to Schumer.
- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez left the door open Sunday to either running for president in 2028 or challenging Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, though she emphasized her focus remains on the midterm elections.
- Ocasio-Cortez has wielded significant political power endorsing insurgent progressive candidates, with Abdul El-Sayed winning Michigan's Democratic Senate primary last week despite tens of millions spent by opposition supporters.
- Adopting a more pragmatic tone, Ocasio-Cortez noted that "politics is also a workplace" and described discussions about crime as "fundamentally different" than in 2020, distancing herself from past polarizing positions.
- On Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez posted Instagram videos administering egg-freezing injections, saying the process felt "very daunting" but she wanted to demystify it for others weighing similar personal medical decisions.
- Describing recent progressive victories as a generational "renewal," Ocasio-Cortez asserted that "Millennials are not, you know, punk kids anymore" and are becoming decisive at the polls, reshaping Democratic Party politics.
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The socialist leader, one of the faces of the party's left wing, says that "anything is possible at this moment"
Ocasio-Cortez is considered a political heiress of Senator Bernie Sanders, exaspirant of the Democratic presidential candidacy, and maintains a close political relationship with the mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, linked to the current democratic socialists of the party
Survey places the congresswoman of Puerto Rican origin as one of the favourites of the democratic camp
AOC blames 2020 lockdown 'rhetoric' for past 'defund the police' support
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested the “rhetoric” seen during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns in 2020 was to blame for her past support of the “defund the police” movement. “During this time and especially during COVID, there was a huge opening of the Overton window,” she said on ABC’s This Week on Sunday.
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