JD Vance says 2028 election won’t be a focus during UK visit
J.D. Vance said his recent trip to the UK did not focus on the 2028 election, despite President Trump calling him MAGA’s potential successor.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not prevent her from running for president in the future, but said her ambitions are bigger than senior office: “My ambition is to change this country.”
Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive Democratic congresswoman from New York, has long been attracting attention as a possible presidential candidate. When asked by Democratic strategist David Axelrod during a speech at the University of Chicago on May 8th whether she would run for president or the Senate, Ocasio-Cortez answered:
Her ambition, she said, is not about “position” or “title or seat.”
“My ambition is much bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country.”
Ocasio-Cortez added that presidents and senators “come and go,” but policies like single-payer health care, a living wage, and women’s and worker rights are “forever.”
“I don’t want to make decisions in terms of what’s good for me. I want to make decisions in terms of how to change this country,” she said.
Ocasio-Cortez, often referred to by her initials AOC, was elected to Congress in 2018, defeating Joe Crowley, who had been in Democratic politics for a decade. She has been re-elected three times.
According to a Harvard Capps Harris poll conducted late last month, 8% of Democratic voters support Ocasio-Cortez as the party’s next presidential candidate.
Ocasio-Cortez is part of a group of left-wing progressive Congressional Democrats informally known as “The Squad,” which also includes Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
