New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is never one to shy away from the spotlight.
That’s why one of her recent moves raised eyebrows
And the real reason AOC is hiding from the press is scarier than anyone could imagine.
Democrats were wondering why Ocasio-Cortez dropped out of sight and assumed a low profile.
“Long gone are the days of her spontaneously joining a sit-in about the Green New Deal in Nancy Pelosi’s office,” CNN reported.
Ocasio-Cortez is widely rumored to be either running for President or challenging Chuck Schumer in a Senate primary in 2028.
An appearance with former Obama chief strategist David Axelrod, where she revealed her grand ambition was to transform America into a socialist state, put her true ambitions into focus.
“My ambition is to change this country,” Ocasio-Cortez stated, listing socialized medicine and wage controls as two examples of her type of change. “Presidents come and go. Senate, House seats, elected officials come and go.”
Ocasio-Cortez’s team raised expectations about her future with absurd claims that Republicans support her plans to impose government control over every aspect of American life.
“We’re seeing an opening, definitely among swingy independents, but also among Republicans: They don’t agree with everything she says, but they believe she is honest and that she’s going to work for people,” a source close to Ocasio-Cortez told CNN. “That will be put to the test in the coming months: Will Democratic candidates in tough races recognize she is a net positive for their campaign?”
Ocasio-Cortez is beginning to build momentum with down-ballot Democrats.
“It really broke open the doors for anti-establishment progressives of color,” Chris Rabb, the Pennsylvania state legislator whom Ocasio-Cortez endorsed and who won a Congressional primary, said to CNN.
“‘Would an endorsement help?’” Georgia state Rep. Ruwa Romman recalled him asking Ocasio-Cortez, “This is a Democratic primary. You poll like plus-40 among Democrats in Georgia. Anything you can give me!”
CNN reported that if Ocasio-Cortez runs in 2028, Bernie Sanders is likely to endorse her, reporting that she is his “obvious heir. It’s no coincidence that when Sanders wanted someone to carry the House version of his bill to regulate new data centers — convinced that AI is a threat to humanity and perhaps his final political mission to stop — he turned to Ocasio-Cortez.”
But it hasn’t been all smooth sailing for Ocasio-Cortez.
Ocasio-Cortez made a fool of herself in her debut on the world stage at the Munich Security Conference, where she offered up a Kamala Harris-esque word salad when asked if she would support America defending Taiwan militarily if China launched an invasion.
“Um, you know, I think that, uh … this is … such a … you know, I think that this is a, um … this is of course a … a very longstanding, um … policy of the United States,” Ocasio-Cortez rambled. “And I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point.”
That episode revealed a worrisome character trait about Ocasio-Cortez, which is that Democrats realized that not only doesn’t she know anything, she doesn’t know how to learn, and that, like Kamala Harris, she can’t answer unscripted questions.
Several otherwise sympathetic critics told CNN they see a deeper problem: Not only didn’t she prepare herself well enough, but she didn’t know how to, and that left her not ready enough for the spotlight in an unscripted moment that wasn’t on Instagram Live or in the reporter scrums at the US Capitol she’s started more eagerly making herself available for.
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