The mother of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that the 28-year-old democratic socialist aspires to eventually sit in the Oval Office. “Her aspiration is to be the president,” Blanca Ocasio-Cortez told the New York Post in a report published Thursday. “She has been thinking about politics since she was a teenager. She would read historical and political books old and new,” her mother said. “She would engage in political discussions passionately.” The 55-year-old mom and school secretary told the local publication she spent several days helping her daughter campaign against 10-term incumbent Rep. Joseph Crowley (D) for New York’s 14th District congressional...
