{"id":15410,"date":"2026-07-24T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=15410"},"modified":"2026-07-24T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T01:00:18","slug":"laura-ingraham-offers-some-rare-praise-for-attractive-aoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=15410","title":{"rendered":"Laura Ingraham Offers Some Rare Praise for &#8216;Attractive&#8217; AOC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body\">\n<p>Fox News\u2019 <strong>Laura Ingraham<\/strong> offered some rare praise for Rep. <strong>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/strong> (D-NY) on Thursday\u2019s edition of <em>The Ingraham Angle<\/em>, calling her an \u201cattractive millennial with a powerful surface appeal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The segment began with the Fox News host showing a clip of Ocasio-Cortez denying she\u2019s thought about a 2028 presidential run, with Ingraham remarking, \u201cI actually kind of believe her. I\u2019m not sure she\u2019s obsessing about it right now,\u201d before adding, \u201cHas she weighed anything seriously ever?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here, Ingraham was referencing the next-played <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/firing-line\/video\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez\/\">clip<\/a> of the congresswoman being questioned in 2018 on her use of the word \u201coccupation\u201d to describe Israel\u2019s actions in Palestine, to which she responded, \u201cI am not the expert on geopolitics on this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, gotta give her credit,\u201d Ingraham admitted. \u201cShe didn\u2019t know much \u2014 still won. But the fact is, AOC is an attractive millennial with a powerful surface appeal. With her long, sleek raven hair and red lipstick, she\u2019s at times played dual roles \u2014 kind of the earnest activist, up from her bootstraps, who wants to stick it to the man, and then at times, she\u2019s kind of played the girly-girl who shares her favorite recipe on TikTok.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay, she should bring that back,\u201d the Fox News host continued of Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s food-focused online presence. \u201cOkay? I like cooking videos. There\u2019s nothing wrong with that. The question is, what is she cooking up with socialism?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite her insistence that she hasn\u2019t thought about 2028, a University of New Hampshire poll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/aoc-jumps-out-to-strong-lead-in-early-presidential-poll-while-kamala-harris-barely-registers\/\">released Wednesday<\/a> showed the congresswoman leading the pack of potential Democratic presidential nominees, with 22% support.<\/p>\n<p>Former Transportation Secretary <strong>Pete<\/strong> <strong>Buttigieg<\/strong> finished a close second with 21%, while California Governor <strong>Gavin Newsom<\/strong>, former Vice President <strong>Kamala Harris<\/strong>, and Sens. <strong>Mark<\/strong> <strong>Kelly<\/strong> (D-AZ) and <strong>Bernie<\/strong> <strong>Sanders<\/strong> (I-VT) each received less than 10%.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full clip above via Fox News.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>New: The Mediaite One-Sheet &#8220;Newsletter of Newsletters&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>Your daily summary and analysis of what the many, many media newsletters are saying and reporting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News\u2019 Laura Ingraham offered some rare praise for Rep. 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