Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and her team are positioning her to run for president or the U.S. Senate in 2028, according to people familiar with her operation.
Why it matters: Ocasio-Cortez’s 2028 decision could shake up the presidential race or the Senate’s leadership. A fellow New Yorker, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, 74, is up for re-election in 2028.
A Senate race between Schumer and Ocasio-Cortez, 35, would be a generational clash pitting the Democratic Party’s leading traditionalist against its star insurgent progressive.
State of play: This year, Ocasio-Cortez — widely known as AOC — has campaigned across the country and in parts of New York State far from her Bronx and Queens district, all while investing millions to grow her already formidable online presence.
She has also brought in some former senior advisers to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to bolster her operation.
Ocasio-Cortez hasn’t made any decision about her future. But her team is working to give her choices.#
Senate. While I’ve got no problem with a woman as President enough of America seems to that I’d rather not hand the Presidency to the fascists on a silver platter.
Weird how you guys always focus on the ladybits as the unifying factor between Clinton and Harris losing and not their shitty campaigns to the center and inability to have a single authentic moment.
It’s a convenient excuse that means the establishment, with its 20% approval rate and record of abject failures both electorally and in countering Republican messaging, doesn’t need to change a single thing that might upset the donor class that has caused them to inexplicably cling to positions 70+% of the party do not hold.
No one wants what the gerontocracy is selling. We already can’t afford housing and will never have any sort of financial stability because our parents (I’m Gen X) decided they should get all the money.
And you want me to vote for a septuagenarian? Fuck off. Go find a nice porch with a rocking chair from all your lobbyist dollars.
Yeah well fuckin pardon me for looking at similarities between what’s worked lately and what hasn’t so we can get out from under fascism as quick as fucking possible.
Jesus Christ if we keep going after each other we’ve got a snowball’s chance in hell at pulling it off.
YOU are the one causing the division! JFC, dropping in, saying “no women” and then complaining about division is just incredible.
The “they’re just sexist, that was the problem” isn’t just some random observation from people trying to just figure out what works. It’s an intentional campaign to scapegoat women for losses caused by the political class who keep trying to run the same campaign and failing.
They’re not coming with hyper-cautious analyses saying “no women, no abandoning the base, no campaigning with Republicans, no timid neoliberal policies”. They’d still be wrong, but at least that would seem like a legit attempt by a simple mind to avoid anything that might possibly be a weakness. Instead they just stop with the first. They’re looking for a scapegoat, because all those other factors were getting pretty unpopular in the party and they desperately needed some other explanation.
Them being women isn’t the problem; the fact that clearly enough voters aren’t comfortable with it is. I’m sorry you can’t wrap your head around that.
Bless your heart!