AOC Delivers Measured Response To Big 2028 Question: ‘My Ambition Is Way Bigger’

Huffington Post ^ | 5/09/26 | Pocharapon Neammanee

[Libloather]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) dismissed a question of whether or not she’ll run for president in 2028 on Friday night, stating that her “ambition is way bigger.”

“My ambition is to change this country,” Ocasio-Cortez told Democratic strategist David Axelrod during a conversation hosted by the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics. “Presidents come and go, Senate, House seats, elected officials, come and go, but single-payer healthcare is forever. A living wage is forever. Workers’ rights are forever. Women’s rights — all of that.”

The representative is among a group of people whom voters see as potential Democratic candidates for the 2028 presidential election, including Gov. Gavin Newsom (Calif.), former Vice President Kamala Harris, and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

However, according to Ocasio-Cortez, her political ambitions are to “meet the moment,” noting that “conditions change radically all the time.”

“So I make my response less to an attachment to some ... title or position, and working backwards from there.” Ocasio-Cortez told Axelrod. “But I make decisions by waking up in the morning, looking out the window and observing the conditions of this country and saying what move or what decision can I make today that is going to get us closer to that future, stronger, faster, better than yesterday and those conditions.”

She went on to say her “decisions come from a very substantive place,” highlighting that no elite power can prevent her from “waking up every day in service of the working class.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: 2028; ambition; anotheraocthread; aoc; demagogicparty; newyork; rentfreeonfr; westchester

[Dilbert San Diego]

Her ambition is way bigger than to be president?

How can you have an ambition , politically speaking , larger than being president?

But how can she want to be a queen? Because the liberals have been doing all these no kings protests. The liberals are trying to tell us that they oppose any semblance of royalty in our leaders.

[shotgun]

She wants to be the Dick-tator

[Verginius Rufus]

It wouldn’t be enough for her to be a historic President like Washington, Lincoln or Reagan. Rather she needs to something grander, like a combination of Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan and Napoleon.

[C210N]

AOC should vie for something more attainable than president. Like, Pope.

[Flaming Conservative]

Any number of Republican candidates would mop the floor with her in a debate.

[Lizavetta]

That this simpleton is actually considered as a PRESIDENTIAL candidate ... I mean, what more do you need to prove that our schools have produced total morons who have no financial or economic sense of any kind?

To get elected it's all how hot and pretty you are, how outrageous you are. Nothing about intelligence, rational thought, educational chops, wisdom.

Morons are running the show now. What are we to do?

[neverevergiveup]

I love America and don’t want it changed to anything that AOC or Bernie Sanders want it to look like. What she is saying is that she wants to dictate how the rest of us live. That’s what dictators want.

[CaptainPhilFan]

IOW, she wants to burn our Constitution and make this place a Socialist-Communist-Marxist shithole where everyone is equally miserable.

Am I close?

[Libloather]

Could be the ketamine talking. Payments to the shrink sound illegal. More headaches on the way.

[Ann Archy]

AOC...ICARUS.......she will have the same fate.

[Dead Corpse]

Economic and history illiterate bar tender with delusions of adequacy...

I am still, 100%, convinced that her usefulness as a human being ends when she puts her clothes back on.

[Steve_Seattle1]

"measured response"

The author is a clown and a suck-up The response was NOT "measured," but grandiose and egocentric.

[rlmorel]

(Didn’t even have to change any lyrics to speak of)

PIG TIME (Big Time)

Hi there

I’m on my way, I’m making it, huh
I’ve got to make it show, yeah
So much larger than life
I’m going to watch it growing
Ohh

The place where I come from is a small town
They think so small, they use small words
But not me, I’m smarter than that
I worked it out
I’ve been stretching my mouth
To let those big words come right out
I’ve had enough, I’m getting out
To the city, the big, big city
I’ll be a big noise with all the big boys
So much stuff I will own

And I will pray to a big god
As I kneel in the big church

(Big time) I’m on my way, I’m making it
(Big time) Ooh, yes
(Big time) I’ve got to make it show, yeah
(Big time)
(Big time) So much larger than life
(Big time) I’m going to watch it growing
(Big time) Ohh, ohh

My parties have all the big names
And I greet them with the widest smile
Tell them how my life is one big adventure
And always, they’re amazed
When I show them ‘round
My house to my bed
I had it made like a mountain range
With a snow-white pillow for my big fat head

And my heaven will be a big heaven
And I will walk through the front door

(Big time) I’m on my way, I’m making it
(Big time) huh
(Big time) I’ve got to make it show, yeah
(Big time)
(Big time) So much larger than life
(Big time) I’m going to watch it growing
(Big time)

(Big time) My car’s getting bigger
(Big time) My house, getting bigger
(Big time) My eyes, getting bigger
(Big time) And my mouth
(Big time) My belly’s getting bigger
(Big time) And my bank account
(Big time) Look at my circumstance
(Big time) And the bulge in my big, big big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big

[FlingWingFlyer]

President my eye. She’s going for Queen of the U.S.

[DPMD]

If I’m making millions as a House rep, imagine what I can rake in as Head Lizard of Everything.

[FlingWingFlyer]

She wants to turn America into a Taco and Margareta Pirate seaport for the Sammies.

[DPMD]

Correction: Air is very substantive.

[Political Junkie Too]

She went from an economics major at Boston University to a bartender in Queens to the House of Representatives, and now the presidency isn't big enough for her?

Dunning, meet Kruger!

-PJ

[Albion Wilde]

“Presidents come and go, Senate, House seats, elected officials, come and go, but single-payer healthcare is forever. A living wage is forever. Workers’ rights are forever. Women’s rights...

[beethovenfan]

“In service of the working class” my obama.