Speculation is mounting that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will run for president in 2028, fueled by a University of New Hampshire poll showing her leading a potential Democratic field and a Zogby poll showing a generic democratic socialist beating a generic MAGA candidate 45-33. She has not ruled it out, and has spent the past year touring with Bernie Sanders and campaigning for progressive candidates nationally.
In the past week she announced on Instagram that she is freezing her eggs, prompting speculation about her relationship status, and told an ABC interviewer that pandemic-era 'Woke' politics 'was crazy,' distancing herself from defund-the-police rhetoric. Her allies, including DSA co-chair Ashik Siddique, say a run would generate real enthusiasm among the party's left flank.
Colleagues recall that the moment she beat 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley in 2018, Democratic operatives were already calling to plot her next office, rather than asking what she planned to do with the one she'd just won. Her former communications director says she has consistently resisted that kind of careerist mapping.
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