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

[Rummyfan]

…. but single-payer healthcare is forever. A living wage is forever. Workers’ rights are forever. Women’s rights — all of that.”

Same old communist BS.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

So does Meghan Markle!
*snicker*

[Rummyfan]

“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.”

Does she do that before or after coffee?!

Thats some long-term strategic planning lol. Musk wants to go to Mars…. AOC is checking the weather and going from there.

[Rummyfan]

Yeah…. Frightening and pathetic.

[Dr. Sivana]

Shapiro has no chance, he’s Jewish and the D rank and file now hate Jews

Sometimes you run for VP, or to get a message out (Rand Paul), or to increase name recognition and practice for a future run. In the old day, it could have been to control a bloc of delegates that you use for influence with a possible nominee.

[_longranger81]

Paying people who don’t feel like working is forever. Until your country is turned into Venezuela and the cannibalism sets in.

[Secret Agent Man]

Shes not even smart enough to changer her own mind.

[Migraine]

Spot on. But the main thing that stands in the way of socialism On a global scale Is the USA. If not for the USA and our Second Amendment and our strong military socialism would have taken over the world by now. Long time ago.

That’s why they’re so keen on taking us down. Were standing in their way. And they can’t do it militarily. They can only do it from within. Keen observers have seen this for a long time.

[Migraine]

You’re right, air is substantive. That’s why sailboats work. But like AOC You can see right through it.