AOC opens up about race, gender in weighing possible 2028 White House bid

AOC opens up about race, gender in weighing possible 2028 White House bid
Congresswoman says America’s failure to elect a female president is a ‘factor’

AOC refuses to rule out 2028 presidential run
The co-hosts of 'Fox & Friends' discuss Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., after she declined to rule out a presidential campaign or a primary challenge against Sen. Chuck Schumer. A recent poll showed Ocasio-Cortez leading potential candidates for the 2028 Democratic primary.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., raised concerns during an interview published Tuesday about how her race and gender could factor into a potential 2028 presidential bid.

"Pretty candidly, I think about my identity," Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with The New York Times. "I’m not naïve to the fact that we are living under a very regressive administration, and I happen to be a woman, and I, you know, happen to be Latina. And I think that there’s a lot of conversation about electability, and I don’t kind of shy away from those realities."

The progressive congresswoman said of a possible White House run, "I think about it personally."


"I am 36, I’m about to turn 37 years old — and what that means for my life," she added.


"This country has never elected a female president. Why are we pretending that this is not a factor?" she told the Times. "That doesn’t make it impossible, but to act as though it’s not a factor in anything ever is really a form of, like, denialism."

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