AOC is reportedly making moves toward a run for president in 2028, according to Axios, who argues that’s what she’s doing despite her saying she’s still undecided.
Here’s the report:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she hasn’t decided whether to run for president, but the New York congresswoman is making new moves toward a possible White House bid.
- Ocasio-Cortez launched a national tour in recent weeks — without calling it one.
Whether AOC jumps into the race is one of the biggest X factors in the 2028 Democratic primary.
- Democratic operatives expect she would easily raise $100 million just from small-dollar donors, mobilize many supporters of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ past campaigns, and command attention as few other candidates could.
Just in May, Ocasio-Cortez has:
- Rallied voters in Philadelphia for a left-wing congressional candidate in a competitive primary.
- Spoken at a rally in Montgomery, Ala., about voting rights.
- Addressed the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta with Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock. (Democrats note that Warnock, the church’s senior pastor, doesn’t always allow visiting politicians to speak at this church. Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg didn’t speak when he visited in March.)
- Met with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter at the King Center in Atlanta to talk about data centers and voting rights.
- Visited Morehouse School of Medicine, also in Atlanta, to discuss Black maternal health.
- Rolled out several endorsements in races across the country.
This week, Ocasio-Cortez will travel to Missoula, Mont., to campaign for congressional candidate Sam Forstag, a smokejumper and union leader who spoke at a rally with AOC and Sanders last year.
AOC also has raised eyebrows by attending meetings with Democratic Party powerbrokers.
AOC is definitely going to run and wants to pull a Mamdani by getting voters to make her president after she makes overly broad and impossible promises that make them feel good.
Well, I welcome her running for president and hope she wins the Democrat primary, assuming they even have one. She is the epitome of the left’s most radical and woke candidates, which was a big reason why Democrats lost in 2024 – well that and they had an incompetent candidate. And I don’t see AOC being much better to be honest.
I think voters would reject her in a big way. So yeah, go for it AOC. Run for president.