Democrats Float AOC celebrity Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for President, Claim She Has ‘Best Shot against Trump in 2024’

Some Democrats are calling for celebrity Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to run for president in 2024 because they think she has the “best shot” against President Donald Trump.

AOC has not been shy about criticizing President Joe Biden or supporting primary challengers for establishment Democrats.

She herself defeated powerful 10-term incumbent Congressman Joe Crowley (D-NY) in the 2018 Democratic primary.

With the Democrats’ bench so weak that Kamala Harris and Pete Buttegueg are the front-runners to beat back Biden, an AOC candidacy is always a possibility.

Democratic communications expert Michael Starr Hopkins, who served on the campaigns of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Delaney, lays out the Democrats’ case for wanting AOC to run for POTUS in an op-ed for The Hill.

“When Barack Obama came out of nowhere to win his Senate seat in 2004, it almost felt preordained,” Hopkins writes.

“As if he was the person we had been waiting for to breathe fresh air into the Democratic Party.

“Flash forward to 2018, and the meteoric rise of a 29-year-old bartender from Queens feels eerily similar.

“She has been unafraid, unapologetic, and unwilling to bend to the will of Washington.

“She is a force to be reckoned with, and in 2024 Democrats are going to need her force to reckon with Republicans.


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