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A man who claims he spent money to fund Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's shock rise to Congress says the 'Squad' Democrat has 'betrayed' her district. Ramon Ramirez Baez, a lifelong Democrat who voted for Donald Trump in November and committee member in the New York Assembly, claims he helped get her to the debate stage and propped up her Congressional campaign when she primaried establishment Democrat Joe Crowley. Now, Baez is working on behalf of the campaign to improve the Roosevelt Ave. section of Corona, Queens in AOC's district, which has become a huge new red light district thanks to the arrival...

Nothing can be said for certain, except death, taxes — and now, speculation about AOC running for president. The latest round comes courtesy of a Black Friday story in The Hill about contenders for the Democratic nomination in 2028. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was thrown in as the 11th and last name, a fun little kicker. “She’s somebody who can cut through the noise and doesn’t talk like Washington,” an anonymous Democratic strategist told The Hill. AOC for president hype started three weeks after she first took office in 2019 when Axios found three-quarters of Dems would consider voting for her...

The day after the election, an NBC News chart circulated on Instagram highlighting exit poll data showing that, roughly, the more education you had, the more likely you were to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris over President-elect Donald Trump. Some liberals used the occasion to look down upon the icky dummies who were too stupid to know they shouldn’t vote for Trump. Yet Trump’s victory was both definitive and diverse. He won broad swaths of the electorate, making significant gains in New York and California and winning over larger percentages of Latino voters and young voters than in 2020....

While polls of Democratic primary voters have been showing that they supposedly want Vice President Kamala Harris to run again, there's a new name out there, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a member of the far-left Squad. On Friday morning, The Hill put out an analysis of potential 2028 Democratic candidates, with Harris topping that list of seven candidates, and AOC closing it out. As their blurb on the congresswoman read:When Democrats talk about the future of the party, the 35-year-old New York congresswoman’s name always bubbles to the top.Democrats have long been impressed with Ocasio-Cortez’s ability to “cut through the...

Democrats are licking their wounds after Vice President Harris’s defeat to President-elect Trump, but already are looking toward who might lead their party in a 2028 presidential contest. It’s a fight that looks wide open. The certainty is that Trump himself will not be on the ballot, since the Constitution limits him to two terms. Vice President-elect JD Vance is the likely GOP front-runner as the party’s next presidential nominee.

The right-wing media sphere flew into a frenzy on Thursday when several users on social media pointed out that U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York had removed her pronouns from her bio on X, formerly Twitter. The overarching sentiment was that Ocasio-Cortez's decision to remove her pronouns from her bio underscored President-elect Donald Trump's decisive victory in the 2024 election, and was an inflection point in "woke" ideology—a derisive term that many conservatives use to describe identity politics and progressive values.

Kamala Harris leads her closest potential 2028 Democrat presidential contender by 33 points, according to polling from Echelon Insights. Here’s the breakdown: Vice President Kamala Harris — 41 percent California Gov. Gavin Newsom — 8 percent Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro — 7 percent Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg — 6 percent Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz — 6 percent On one side of the scenario, you can see why Democrat voters still support her, even after her decisive loss to President-elect Donald Trump two weeks ago. She still has the best name recognition. She’s been vice president for four years. She never...

A trans war has broken out on Capitol Hill after a Republican lawmaker proposed a measure that would block the first transgender member of Congress from using biological women's restrooms in the U.S. Capitol. Rep. Nancy Mace is pushing for the new rule ahead of the arrival of Congresswoman-elect Sarah McBride, who will take office in January as the first openly-trans lawmaker in the United States. McBride blasted Republicans after the proposal, claiming they were using it as a 'distraction' tactic. 'This is a blatant attempt from far right-wing extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real...

Progressive Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shocked MSNBC host Joy Reid with her simple explanation of why some New Yorkers opted to vote for Donald Trump as president but also helped reelect her to Congress on the same ballots. The Republican president-elect improved his share of support in New York City including in AOC's district in 2024, leaving some scratching their heads over how someone could vote for him and a progressive member of 'The Squad.' After the election, the Democratic congresswoman put out on social media that she wanted to hear from such voters about their thinking. The responses came flooding...

Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines tore into Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after followers noticed she removed her pronouns from her X account. The woke congresswoman previously noted she used 'she/her' pronouns on her profile, but that reference has since disappeared. She also apparently changed her title in her description from 'US Representative' to 'US Congresswoman.'

Hollywood star and filmmaker Justine Bateman dropped another hilarious film critic’s take on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) latest video lamenting President-elect Donald Trump’s victory. The 58-year-old actress broke down the new video from AOC in the latest installment of Bateman’s ongoing #SocialMediaVideoCritique series on X, in which she reacts to those posting meltdown videos about Trump’s win. Rather than pointing out things like poor messaging or simply mocking their outbursts, Bateman has some fun focusing instead on the backgrounds, lighting, and camera angles.

BREAKING: Some Democrats are now saying AOC is the future of the party.

Morning Joe” co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough painstakingly read out New York Times opinion columnist Maureen Dowd’s entire editorial on how “identity politics” killed the Democratic 2024 election bid.

An elderly white woman was charged with a hate crime in Washington state for allegedly assaulting two Donald Trump-supporting Hispanic women. The unnamed 82-year-old was arrested Monday on suspicion of committing a hate crime, though formal charges had not yet been filed, the Edmonds Police Department told KOMO News. Bodycam footage shows the octogenarian telling police, “I approached her, and I said, ‘I want to know why you’re voting for Trump.’ That’s the only thing. And I said, ‘Because you’re brown-skinned.'” Trump supporter Gina Powell said the elderly woman got in her face, questioning her race and beliefs, as she...

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is warning that the United States may be entering an era of 'fascism and authoritarianism' as the country prepares for President-elect Donald Trump to return to power. The 35-year-old socialist-leaning New York congresswoman hopped on Instagram Wednesday to speak with her liberal followers about the election results where she painted an extremely bleak picture for the country's future. The leading member of the House Democrats' progressive 'Squad' said the U.S. is entering a political period that will have consequences 'for the rest of our lives.' 'We find ourselves I believe in a time where there are lets...

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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), a member of the progressive faction in the House referred to as the “Squad,” refused to back Vice President Kamala Harris during a Michigan United Auto Workers rally just days ahead of the election. With union workers forming a critical component of the Democratic base, Tlaib joined Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in rallying supporters in Detroit on Friday evening in a bid to shore up blue party support in the battleground state. Yet while Jayapal and Ocasio-Cortez urged workers to vote for Harris, Tlaib never mentioned her name. Tlaib has been a...

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is facing criticism over a campaign mailer featuring a nonsensical Arabic translation of election information, including the last day voters can cast their ballot. The campaign leaflet features Arabic script in which the characters appear in reverse order and are disconnected, deviating from standard Arabic script requirements. The mistake drew attention after Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, a journalist, criticized the gaffe on X (formerly Twitter). He remarked that the disorganized script was emblematic of Ocasio-Cortez’s disconnect with Arab voters. The incorrect Arabic also drew comments from Meir Javedanfar, an Iranian studies professor at Reichman University. He equated the...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez touted First Gentleman Doug Emhoff as the ideal representation of masculinity at a Las Vegas campaign event for his wife Kamala Harris on Wednesday. “He’s not afraid to embody and pass on these values of security and this idea that you can, you can let your girl shine,” Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told a room full of students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, according to the Daily Mail. “And he embodies that really well. We should all be really, really proud of him.” The “squad” member praised Emhoff’s example of masculinity less than a week after a...

Tim Walz dropped a wide-open pass on NFL Sunday. The Minnesota governor and Democratic vice presidential candidate livestreamed himself playing video games with Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in an appeal to younger male voters — only to be mocked after misusing a common football term. Walz, a former defensive coordinator at Mankato West High School, tweeted afterward that the far-left Bronx and Queens rep “could run a mean pick 6” — referring to an interception returned for a touchdown — in the Madden video game series. The post was later deleted, but not before conservatives jumped on the malapropism.