AOC might run for president in 2028
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The Hill recently spotlighted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as a potential Democratic presidential candidate for 2028, listing her among seven possible contenders.
Amie Parnes, The Hill’s senior congressional correspondent, included AOC alongside other prominent Democrats in her analysis of future party leadership.
Speaking to The Hill, an unnamed Democratic strategist praised Ocasio-Cortez’s straightforward communication style, noting that “she doesn’t talk like Washington” and can “cut through the BS and tell it like it is.”
NEW: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could run for president in 2028 according to The Hill.
One Democrat strategist said their party is impressed with AOC’s ability to “cut through the BS and tell it like it is.”
“She’s somebody who can cut through the noise and doesn’t talk like… pic.twitter.com/3jvri2tinC
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 29, 2024
Yet, some within the party express concerns about her progressive stance. Another strategist cautioned that “She and the ‘squad’ started pushing too hard, too fast. D.C. doesn’t work that way. And our party doesn’t work that way. We need to get back to the basics.”
The recent presidential election, which saw Vice President Kamala Harris lose decisively to President-elect Donald Trump, has sparked debate about the viability of progressive policies within the Democratic Party.
Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky offered a candid assessment on CNN’s Newsroom, stating: “You know, I’m going to speak some hard truths to my friends in the Democratic Party. This is not Joe Biden’s fault. It’s not Kamala Harris fault. It’s not Barack Obama’s fault. It is the fault of the Democratic Party in not knowing how to communicate effectively to voters. We are not the party of common sense, which is the message that voters sent to us. For a number of reasons, for a number of reasons, we don’t know how to speak to voters. When we address Latinos — and language, and language has meaning — we address Latino voters as Latinx, for instance, because that’s the politically correct thing to do, it makes them think that we don’t even live on the same planet as they do. When we are too afraid to say that, ‘Hey, college kids, if you’re trashing a campus of Columbia University because you aren’t happy about some sort of policy and you’re taking over a university and you’re trashing it and preventing other students from learning that that is unacceptable.’ But we’re so worried about alienating one or another cohort in our coalition that we don’t know what to say when normal people look at that and say, ‘Wait a second, I send my kids to college so they can learn, not so they can burn buildings and trash lawns.'”
With Democrats fractured, I do believe AOC will be a contender for the Dem nomination in 2028. Clear front runner to take the Bernie base. She’s likable, real, and has the it factor. Question would be how well she could debate and make socialism not sound like naive nonsense. pic.twitter.com/vTKXzNRRym
— JVL (@JVLinDC) November 29, 2024
Ocasio-Cortez offered a different perspective on Harris’s defeat during a November 6 livestream. “This race may not have been decided by any one individual factor, but misogyny is very, very real in this country,” she remarked, adding, “As another widely known woman of color in office, you know, I knew that sexism and racism were real, but it was not until I got subjected to a national stage that I actually was shocked at how bad it is.”
The Hill’s list of potential 2028 Democratic candidates also included Harris, Governors Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker, Josh Shapiro, and Gretchen Whitmer, along with outgoing Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
