She’s embarked on a nationwide tour with Vermont’s Independent Senator Bernie Sanders, held town halls outside of her district in upstate New York, and raised $15 million
Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive who has cemented her popularity with young voters, is reportedly considering running for president or the Senate in 2028.
Ocasio-Cortez, 35, made a splash when she was elected to represent New York’s 14th congressional district, located in the Bronx and Queens, in 2019. Now, the Democrat is reportedly considering taking the next step in her political career as the party searches for its next generation of leaders, Axios reported Friday.
Members of Ocasio-Cortez’s team have recently been positioning the progressive lawmaker, known as AOC, to either run for president or run for a Senate seat.
Good! I hope she comes with some fire, sound policy ideas, and a tight campaign
“Plotting” is an infuriating word choice.
I’d vote for her. I’m not interested in entertaining any arguments about electability. The least electable person in the universe has won the presidency twice. If enough people vote for her she is electable.
AOC concocts DEVIOUS scheme to repossess burger from McDonalds using PRIVATE bank account funding
AOC buy lunch at McDonalds.
AOC funds animal murder with her own monies.
Title is a lie. It says right in the body “president or Senate”. Downvote and report.
Also: “plotting”? What the fuck is this? Has running for president suddenly become illegal??
it’s subconscious conservatism sneaking into the headline.
" is reportedly considering running for president or the Senate in 2028."
Stupid clickbait title.
I’d vote for her in a heartbeat.
Probably one of the few candidates that have a chance with the democrats that would get me out to the polls.
If they nominate someone like kamala harris or joe biden again, it’s all over.
This is of course assuming it’s not all over already because they ran spineless crooks who don’t represent the working class.
At the moment, that will likely be Newsom unless something major happens.
Looks like I’ll be sitting out another election.
Everyone getting mad at this needs to ignore me and direct any grievances they have towards anyone supporting newsom or another establishment candidate.
^^ supports MAGA ^^
If they nominate someone like kamala harris or joe biden again, it’s all over.
If they nominate someone like that, you should still go vote for that person and continue to fight for change, because the alternate is still far worse. The reality with US politics is that unless one of (or both) the two major parties implodes, the president will be affiliated with one of them. If one of the parties does break apart, it will guarantee a win for the other party.
If there is one thing the right does very well, it’s to whip it’s voters in line when election time comes. They may bitch and moan, but they’ll vote for the ® regardless.
You should be directing all of this energy towards those nominating candidates that don’t represent the interests of the working class.
sure thing, but you still need to vote for the less harmful candidate if your favourite doesn’t get the nomination. You got Trump because people figured they’d protest and not vote or vote for Jill Stein or whatever. Republicans may have not been fully on board with a second Trump term, but they still voted for him. They will vote for whoever has the ® by their name next time as well.
Does voting dem just kick the can down the road? Absolutely, but better than not having a can to kick…
sure thing
proceeds to do the exact opposite
Yeah, looking forward to staying home on election day. So fucking tired of the moderate white.
Yeah, looking forward to staying home on election day.
Have fun with another republican term then, because that is the only plausible result of not voting against them. That is, if there is another election since your morally superior not-voting got you Trump again and Project 2025 is by many accounts, well ahead of schedule. Good Job!
You should be directing all of this energy towards those nominating candidates that don’t represent the interests of the working class.
God dammit. You people just don’t learn.
We’re both going to be stuck with a republican because you keep repeating the same mistakes.
Both of your comments were a complete waste of energy and did nothing to change my stance. You need to direct that energy towards the people voting for the hillary clintons and joe bidens over the bernie sanders and AOCs.
Now, are you going to waste more energy or finally learn and do something different? I know what I’ll put my money on!
Have the day you protest-voted for. Keep protest voting and losing. Keep letting your rights get eroded because your perfect candidate isn’t on the ballot. But hey, if you protest vote enough, you might not have to vote anymore, the candidate that you allowed to take the white house said so.
She is one of only two people I would be excited to vote for.
The other person is Jon Stewart.
I want Dolly Parton.
She won’t win a run for POTUS. Try Senate first.
I don’t know if she has the volume of support needed to take on the next R candidate for POTUS, but Newsom also has a lot of skeletons that will probably tank him if he gets on the ticket. She would do great as a replacement for Schumer and from what I’m reading has a good chance to do so.
But, like, hear me out: Tim Walz is in a pretty decent position for a run at POTUS: There’s enough time for him to bow out of the next gubernatorial campaign and prop up a progressive candidate. There’s enough time for him to gain support in the party. His terms as governor were largely regarded as successful, showing that he is capable of being a head of state. Compared to Newsom, he also has a much better track record when it comes to standing up for minorities.
It is also worth noting that Walz is an old (-ish? Compared to recent candidates, he’s apparently on the younger side…) white guy who coached high school football. This means that he’s already well suited to get the swing voters - the ones that vote regularly, but will vote for either party. If he were to run, he would need a running mate that could sway the left-wing non-voters into voting, which means a fairly high-profile progressive.
Bernie is too old now and would be more useful promoting younger politicians.
AOC in the case of a Walz presidency would be more effective as a senate leader.
Any other center/center-right running mate would tank his candidacy.
Because the USA is racist AF, anyone who looks or sounds too middle eastern will tank him.
However, it’s been established that a black person can be POTUS and a black woman can be VPOTUS, so might I suggest Tim Walz/Summer Lee for 2028?
3rd time’s the charm for seeing if the country will accept a woman. What’s the worst that could happen?
The liberal only sees a candidate through the lens of identity politics and can’t imagine any other qualities.
Exactly - its definitely the liberals who refuse to vote for women. You seem super duper smart, pal. Any other insights to bless us with?
“plotting” eh?
Yes, such dastardly plans.
Conspicuous in their, uh, inconspicuity
I’m picturing that family guy skin shade card, but the top says “decisive executive leadership” while the bottom says “plotting/conspiring.”
I think both oligarchs and corporatists alike will fight far too hard to take her down. The US would need a far more fair and democratic procedure to elect someone that would change the paradigm like AOC–especially since Citizens United.
But why is there such this defeatist attitude any time someone remotely not terrible tries to do something? It’s like we’re doing the fascists work for them with talk like this. I get that fuckery happens any time someone kinda different or kinda maybe good (for a politician) steps up, but that can be overcome with more support. When the margins are thin, it’s easy for them to cheat. When they aren’t, it’s fucking not. So let’s stop making the margins tighter with this kind of talk
Super PACs are the fuckery that happens any time someone steps up–and AOC wants justice–she is not an interest for them. We need to stop thinking it is a just world and think like they do. We need need an interest for Super PACs and we need to use that to replace SCOTUS and the majority of Congress. The doddering degenerates in office are an embarrassment. The three branches are littered with dolts and ignorant bigots.
They want to be proven right when things go poorly, increasing the odds of that happening in the process.
Sigh.
Look. I like her. I like her fighting spirit. I like that she gives a shit. I like it all.
But when is this country going to learn? Look around you. Our culture is trash. This country is overflowing with racists and sexists and incels. Look at where we are right now.
We’ve tried to elect a woman twice in a row. They were both WAY more qualified than their opponent. And they lost. I voted for both of them.
If we run AOC, they’ll run a white male bigot. And they’ll win. Again. Using the same tactics.
Know your audience.
I’m not sure the racists and sexists and incels are gonna vote for the Democrat candidate even if it was a literal clone of Donald Trump, solely because it’s the Democratic candidate
Damn, guess we better appeal to the sexists and racists, there is just no other option. You are very smart.
Whatever, I’ll wait for the official announcement. Love AOC but not getting my hopes up. Wait till there’s actual news.
I was very disappointed no Tim Walz in that list of other potential candidates. He was the best part of the Harris / Walz ticket
Yes please if only for her age. I want old people out of power and I mean that across the entire spectrum including Bernie sanders. He would be great in her cabinet but we need young people FFS
Why? I’m all for AOC and it has nothing to do with her age. I don’t see anything magical about someone’s age when it comes to setting policy. I like AOC, but I also like wisdom and experience.
Geriatrics running the country don’t have to worry about personally experiencing any of the negative long term consequences of their actions.
Maybe, but if they are progressive and/or have basic empathy and understanding, they understand the morality of planting a seed you may never see become a tree.
Young demons that have been radicalized by The Algorithm and the GOP are not going to GAF if they have the wrong ethics, no matter what age they are.
But we’re repeatedly seeing most geriatric politicians not have basic empathy, especially on one side.
I also think, at the very least, if they’re a young narcissist, they at least are thinking they’ll be alive another 40-50 years and want a world, versus the ones who know time is running out.
Perspective and optics. The millennials were robbed of their chance on the world stage by the boomers. The boomers perspective doesn’t work for what the world is now. People need to see a representation of themselves up there. A representative of the people for the people by the people yada yada yada
The millennials were robbed of their chance on the world stage by the boomers.
Gen X over there like “What the fuck!?!” (I’m a millennial, I get the plight.)
Can’t have it both ways, the same people who complain about the geriatric GOP also want Bernie. You can follow his policy but it’s ridiculous at his age to have him in the White House
You won’t see me complaining about the GOP simply because some of them might be “geriatric”. It’s their policies that are the issue. JD seems very fresh-faced to me, but that guy is the front-man for some truly crazy shit.
I would gladly have age and term limits over Bernie. He is a good fella, but fact of the matter is, there isn’t enough good people of his age to serve alongside him. We need young cohorts of likeminded and idealistic people that are regularly renewed, and I would gladly exchange Bernie’s political position for something that could fix future politicians.
Unfortunately, we cannot sacrifice Bernie’s political future for that. I believe we will be seeing many innocent people die before American politics are changed for the better.
Bernie probably should have stepped down after the 2016 election cycle and promoted a younger left-wing candidate for his seat, then he could have spent the last near-decade putting the weight of his name behind other young left-wing politicians.
I feel like shit typing this but I’m afraid America will not vote for a woman, each time it’s resulted in disaster.
Sure I’ll vote for her, but frankly we need a sure thing, we got a lot of mess to fix, starting with shoring up our constitution against bad faith actors and arresting and prosecuting fascist criminals.
Disbanding the heritage foundation, impeach and remove supreme court justices, reverse citizens United, and remove voting rights of all those pardoned for J6.
Fox news should be made an example of with laws preventing their type of misinformation and propaganda and they should be destroyed.
Scientific fact will be the rule and the standard. Education and our core of government will be free from all religion. Any church or religious organizations in politics will be taxed and disqualified from government.
So many people need to face consequences and I hope you all have a list and are keeping score.
The gloves are fucking off.
You are delusional my friend.
She needs to go for Chuck’s seat instead
100% agree - maybe that’s the plan.
Yeah Schmucker has got to go.
Schumer writing a strongly worded letter to AOC this very instant.
He’ll be 78, it would be reasonable for him to retire when his term is up in 2028. Hopefully the fiascos with Biden and multiple Democratic Representatives dying of old age this term (and the Republican Representative who went missing because her family put her in assisted living), and just slightly further back Feinstein being too sick to make critical votes, all push people to stop hanging on to their seats all the way to the bitter end. Pelosi leading the way here, showing it can be done.
