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AOC has made herself a legit White House contender — and a GOP threat
New York Post ^ | April 16, 2025 | Isaac Schorr

Posted on 04/16/2025 10:07:05 PM PDT by Angelino97

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has come a long way since 2018.

When she first arrived on the political scene by beating out not just an incumbent, but a member of her party’s leadership in a Democratic primary contest, she was a rebel — an avatar of insurgent impulses within her coalition.

And, among Republicans, something of a joke.

Now, she’s the Democratic Party’s most popular elected official.

A Yale University poll released this week found that among Democrats, Ocasio-Cortez boasts the single highest net favorability rating of all the party’s many potential 2028 presidential candidates — a sky-high 62%.

In addition, 41% of the same cohort said they have a “strongly favorable” opinion of the progressive congresswoman — again, the largest proportion to say as much about any Democrat.

And when asked who they would support if the 2028 Democratic presidential primaries were held today, AOC finished a very strong second.

Former vice president Kamala Harris, at 28%, was the only prospective candidate to edge her out.

Ocasio-Cortez’s 21% placed her well ahead of bronze medalist Pete Buttigieg, at 14%.

It’s hard to overstate just how impressive a feat this is, especially considering the 35-year-old New Yorker also had the second-highest name recognition in the poll, behind only Harris.

Just 11.7% of the poll’s Democrats said they haven’t heard of or have no opinion of her, which makes her superb favorability rating all the more breathtaking.

But wait, there’s more.

Harris is a very, very soft front-runner, if she can even be called that.

The 2024 Democratic presidential nominee lost every single battleground state to Donald Trump last fall.

As Trump continues to facilitate liberal teeth-gnashing through his second term, anger at Harris over her dismal performance will only grow.

And so will Democrats’ appetite for a fire-breather like AOC...

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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Don't laugh. She has a real shot at beating Vance or whoever else the GOP puts up.
1 posted on 04/16/2025 10:07:05 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

I will laugh, because she is worse than Kamala laughingstock outside of her democrap media cocoon.


2 posted on 04/16/2025 10:10:22 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Angelino97

Please, oh please, oh please, let them keep thinking this kind of foolishness!


3 posted on 04/16/2025 10:12:04 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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To: Angelino97

No, she doesn’t. She is a product of hype with nearly zero substance. Important people will not allow it. Also she is hated by the hard core serious DNC establishment.

Going nowhere.


4 posted on 04/16/2025 10:12:31 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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Don't laugh. She has a real shot at beating Vance or whoever else the GOP puts up.

I want some of what you are smokin'!

It must be the good stuff!
5 posted on 04/16/2025 10:12:53 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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To: Angelino97

I do laugh, in AOC’s general direction.

Just run some ads like when she went to the border and claimed she visited a children’s detention center, but was actually fake-crying towards an empty parking lot.

Quote her when she complained that she could not afford to live in DC, and then a few weeks later bought a very expensive house, in DC. Where did she get the money?


6 posted on 04/16/2025 10:14:00 PM PDT by jimtorr
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To: Angelino97

That wins the prize for the most ridiculous headline of the year.
Now, where’s my copy of the Fall of The Roman Empire?


7 posted on 04/16/2025 10:17:35 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Angelino97

well sure she has been a great puppet/actor so far since she was selected.


8 posted on 04/16/2025 10:21:01 PM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: Angelino97

I agree.

It is stupid to underestimate her. The Trump haters would vote for Hitler over Vance. Trump derangement syndrome is solid.


9 posted on 04/16/2025 10:21:52 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Angelino97

Not by any sane people.


10 posted on 04/16/2025 10:24:03 PM PDT by Jonty30 (I can promise I can land any plane that is in the air, because gravity only moves in one direction.)
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To: Angelino97

The only thing her “frontrunner” status shows is how shallow the Democrat bench is. There’s some pretty slim pickin’s over there and the bottom of the barrel has been scraped pretty clean. She’s only slightly more articulate, attractive, and likable than Kamala, but just as dumb.


11 posted on 04/16/2025 10:28:14 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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She’s the least foul smelling turd in the septic tank.


12 posted on 04/16/2025 10:29:49 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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The Trump haters would vote for Hitler over Vance. Trump derangement syndrome is solid.

I like what that says about Kamala. :)

13 posted on 04/16/2025 10:31:06 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Golden Age of MAGA is upon us!)
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AOC is stupid. But she has a large and passionate base of support among the TikTok generation.

AOC is beloved by the left, whereas Harris was merely accepted because she was there.

14 posted on 04/16/2025 10:31:15 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: KC_Conspirator

Every dem will vote for her. Holding their nose.


15 posted on 04/16/2025 10:33:00 PM PDT by Beowulf9 ( )
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To: DesertRhino
She is a product of hype with nearly zero substance.

That didn't stop Obama.

Important people will not allow it. Also she is hated by the hard core serious DNC establishment.

Important people in the serious GOP establishment failed to stop Trump.

16 posted on 04/16/2025 10:33:42 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: laplata

Yeah. There are a lot of those on FR.


17 posted on 04/16/2025 10:34:28 PM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: Angelino97
Don't laugh. She has a real shot at beating Vance or whoever else the GOP puts up.

I'm laughing right now.

18 posted on 04/16/2025 10:36:39 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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Don’t be swayed by her “large rallies”- those are not organic rallies- they are filled with col,even kids who have mush for brains but who can yell and scream and pretend she is making sense- she will not win over moderate independents who know what how uneducated in po,itical ways she is. Shemis really dumb when it comes to stuff- the 9nky people she appeals,to are emotionally driven drama queens who feed off of her incitement rhetoric beczuse that is how emotionally driven people thrive- hate fills their tanks, but even moderate de ocrats are now realizing g that their party is in trouble beczuse of all the hatred and ignorant resistance to common sense that is part a d parcel of the party

Aoc is a radical over-the-top liberal and is the reason that moderate liberals are turning on the party- shouting and screaming ignorant talking points by angry liberals is quickly becoming a cause for concern for their party- they know they lost the last election because their only “plan” was to call pres Trump Hitler and “convicted felon”- that all backfired spectacularly on them znd they know it. I really doubt that the more common sense democrats are going g to advance her to run for president knowing g that America is rejecti g far left extremism


19 posted on 04/16/2025 10:37:41 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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RE: Not by any sane people.

There you go, changing the subject. We were discussing Dems, not sane people.


20 posted on 04/16/2025 10:37:54 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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