{"id":35459,"date":"2026-08-10T00:34:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T19:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=35459"},"modified":"2026-08-10T00:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T19:34:34","slug":"alexandria-ocasio-cortez-says-she-hasnt-ruled-out-a-potential-run-for-president-or-senate-in-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=35459","title":{"rendered":"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she hasn\u2019t ruled out a potential run for president or Senate in 2028"},"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<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit_1500w\/rockcms\/2026-08\/260809-aoc-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-vl-1252p-8d3cb7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"anchor-e10c04\" class=\"body-graf\">Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said Sunday that she hasn\u2019t ruled out a potential run for president or the Senate 2028, echoing remarks she\u2019s made while campaigning for congressional candidates ahead of November\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-48473a\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cI\u2019m focused on winning the midterms. I\u2019m running for Congress right now,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez first told ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d on Sunday when asked whether she plans to run for president in two years.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-55b543\" class=\"body-graf\">Pressed further by \u201cThis Week\u201d host Jonathan Karl, Ocasio-Cortez added, \u201cI haven\u2019t ruled out the possibility. And I\u2019m very humbled to the tremendous amount of support out there.\u201d But she reiterated her focus on the upcoming midterms over her own political future.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-c2d466\" class=\"body-graf\">Asked whether she\u2019d consider running for the Senate in New York in 2028, when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., will be up for re-election, Ocasio-Cortez, 36, answered, \u201cI think that anything is possible at this juncture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-8e3b95\" class=\"body-graf\">The congresswoman\u2019s political future has been the subject of speculation for years as she\u2019s wielded her national political power to endorse insurgent progressive candidates who have beaten more moderate, establishment candidates with bigger campaign war chests.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-630850\" class=\"body-graf\">Most recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/abdul-el-sayed-wins-michigans-democratic-senate-primary-notching-midwe-rcna589750\" target=\"_blank\">Abdul El-Sayed<\/a>, a candidate who pledged to reject funding for Israel and promote \u201cMedicare for All,\u201d beat Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., in the Great Lakes State\u2019s Democratic primary for Senate last week, overcoming the tens of millions of dollars spent by Stevens\u2019 supporters to attack him.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-8bb4bc\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cI think that we are in a time of renewal for the Democratic Party. And it\u2019s tremendously exciting for all of us, for the big tent of the Democratic Party,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said Sunday in the wake of El-Sayed\u2019s victory. \u201cWe have really an ascendance of a young, inspiring, exciting electorate, energizing wave of candidates that I think really inject a new energy to the Democratic Party and add to the toolbox of candidates that we have to win the midterm elections hopefully in November.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-1fb8b4\" class=\"body-graf\">El-Sayed\u2019s victory was fueled in part by Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s endorsement and by the backing of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who ran for president twice as a progressive, anti-establishment alternative to traditional Democrats.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-211a74\" class=\"body-graf\">Sanders has all but ruled out another presidential run in 2028, drawing questions about who might <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2028-election\/bernie-sanders-lane-2028-aoc-ro-khanna-rcna343290\" target=\"_blank\">take up the mantle<\/a> of the movement he began in 2016.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-2ad7b2\" class=\"body-graf\">Ocasio-Cortez, to some, appears to be a natural successor, especially as she and Sanders<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bernie-sanders-rally-democrats-rcna197296\" target=\"_blank\"> crisscrossed the nation <\/a>together since the last presidential election, urging supporters to fight oligarchy and support Medicare for All.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-ec198b\" class=\"body-graf\">In July, while campaigning for El-Sayed in Michigan, the congresswoman<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2026\/07\/20\/backstage-with-aoc-in-michigan-01004744\" target=\"_blank\"> told Politico<\/a> when asked about a presidential run: \u201cI mean, I can\u2019t say that I\u2019ve ruled it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-e1da54\" class=\"body-graf\">She was first elected to Congress in 2018, winning her party\u2019s nomination for New York\u2019s 14th Congressional District in a shocking upset to the Queens machine after she challenged longtime Rep. David Crowley in the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-794c97\" class=\"body-graf\">On Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez reflected on her political rise since 2018, telling Karl:<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-1ada43\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cIt has been the greatest privilege of my life to be able to represent the working people of my congressional district. And I think some of the ways that it\u2019s changed me has been to be able to come in with so many aspirations for our country, and then to have the remarkable opportunity to be in the arena and try to make the country a better place, challenges and all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-d2e741\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cAnd I love that it\u2019s hard,\u201d she added. \u201cI love that I have to and I get to engage with people from all across the country, elected officials from all across the country, to try to actually fulfill our dreams to guarantee healthcare to every American.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-c0e93a\" class=\"body-graf\">The congresswoman also spoke about a personal milestone she revealed on Instagram last week \u2014 freezing her eggs \u2014 and why she decided to publicly share such a personal decision.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-a2868f\" class=\"body-graf\">On Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez posted videos of herself on Instagram administering the first injections in the egg-freezing process. \u201cI want to share this because I\u2019ve been weighing this for a very long time \u2026 and there isn\u2019t a lot out there, and sometimes it can feel very daunting,\u201d she said in her posts from Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-aced69\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">Asked by Karl about the decision, Ocasio-Cortez said: \u201cIn this political environment where this administration is denying reproductive care to women across the country, from abortion rights to the ability to carry out a healthy pregnancy, I think it\u2019s important for us as leaders to have these conversations and share these processes, especially for working women across the country, and normalize them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said Sunday that she hasn\u2019t ruled out a potential run for president or the Senate 2028, echoing remarks she\u2019s made while campaigning for congressional candidates ahead of November\u2019s midterm elections. \u201cI\u2019m focused on winning the midterms. 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