Posted on 06/27/2026 8:50:20 AM PDT by Libloather
The decisive primary sweep by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s left-wing comrades gave Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez such an ego boost that Democratic insiders predict it could spur a White House bid in 2028.
The “Squad’s” queen bee may ditch her long-anticipated plot to unseat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for bigger game after three radical Mamdani-backed insurgents running for House seats on Tuesday defeated old-guard Dems, pushing the party even further left, the insiders said.
“New York’s clean sweep was a political earthquake that shows voters generally want to shake up the system,” said Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
“Whatever percent chance [Ocasio-Cortez] put on running for president a week ago, it should be a higher percent chance now – absolutely. It could have gone from 5% to 20%,” added Green, whose political action committee has previously helped finance campaigns for Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and other lefties.
A top establishment Dem believes Ocasio-Cortez will run for president.
“She’s never itched to be a senator, one of 100, because you don’t become a leader — that takes years and a deep record of legislating,” said the aide. “Plus, who wants to be junior senator [in New York] to Kirsten Gillibrand?”
The 36-year-old celebrity socialist already had “great potential” to seek higher office – but “even more so” after Mamdani’s radical allies Darializa Avila Chevalier, Claire Valdez and Brad Lander won their primaries, insisted a longtime New York Democratic operative.
“Every light on the dashboard is flashing [that] people want generational change,” said the operative.
“Everyone’s freaking out,” said a longtime party fundraiser, who chided elected Dems for for “looking stupid” by defending scandal-scarred Maine Senate nominee Graham Platner in a bid to retain his viability.
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7% of the district voted for AOC , she’ll sweep the country flat ,LOL
She barely won her congressional seat and only because her competition phones it in. She wouldn’t even win the primary, probably would even make the primary; drops out before. NYC/AOC, though the darling of all left leaning media, is not the USA.
Never happen. Stop the fear porn.
JD says negative.
She runs and loses-political career is over. Why do that when she can walk into Chuckie’s office with no opposition? On the other hand the longer she waits the more pounds she puts on.
Brandon Gill. Hopefully he has presidential aspirations.
Of course they are. Now that he's recovered from his stroke and is making intelligent points what good is he to them?
.....The decisive primary sweep by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s left-wing comrades gave Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez such an ego boost that Democratic insiders predict it could spur a White House bid in 2028.....
I knew it!!!!
But she won’t win the Presidency!
Kamala won 226 electoral votes. In 2024 Trump won WI by less than 1%, MI less than 2%, and PA less than 2%. Those three states add up to 44 electoral votes. 226 + 44 = 270. That is what it takes to win. Our republic hangs by a thread.
Winner
we have to be extra vigilant for the next POTUS election
if one of the commie/nazi DNC types gets in, America will be in TERRIBLE trouble, perhaps terminal
Both are an issue, but the state government is behind both.
“she would never win” That’s what I told my 90 year old mother about Obama!
not me....i told my buddy who hated hillary during the 2008 primaries- “you may hate hillary but obama is a danger to America and if he wins the dnc nomination he will win easily”...
Maybe she would. The supremes just gave the green light for the dimrats to accept ballots well after election day.
And don’t forget all the ballots from China that were delivered to Pennsylvania by a USPS truck driver.
All those ballots were marked for biden/harris and printed in china.
The US-Passport-holding babies from the Birth Tourism Business, now back in China with their moms, needed some way to get their vote in. I'm sure when the CCP printed the ballots for those US citizen kids they made sure they conformed to all Pennsylvania regulations. No biggie. /s
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