AOC Reportedly Gearing Up for Big 2028 Campaign

Isaac Schorr Sep 19th, 2025, 10:16 am

Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via AP

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is gearing up for a big campaign for a bigger office in 2028 — they’re just not sure which.

According to Axios’s Alex Thompson , Ocasio-Cortez and her political operation are laying the groundwork for a campaign to either succeed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) or win the White House.

While polling shows that the young, progressive congresswoman would enter the race against Schumer as a favorite and Ocasio-Cortez has held eyebrow-raising events in Upstate New York, many believe she might skip a step and take a shot at securing the Oval Office, “some close allies,” per Thompson , “believe that even

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