‘As Republicans, we can laugh and we can try to make fun, but … ‘
By Joe Kovacs
A top conservative is a warning about the 2028 presidential possibility of U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., should she decide to run for the White House.
“AOC has a lot of talent. She has tens of millions of followers on social media, and she needs to be taken seriously. If she were to run for the presidency within the Democrat party, intially she would be formidable,” said Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, on “Sunday Morning Futures” on the Fox News Channel.
“As Republicans, we can laugh and we can try to make fun of her, but she understands where the energy of the Democrat base actually is which is a progressive energy.”
“Now, good luck winning in Ohio or Michigan or Wisconsin or Pennsylvania, in any of these rust-belt states with that sort of radical, left-wing perspective.”
Kirk added whether or not AOC runs for the presidency “will be a very interesting litmus test of where is the center and the soul of the Democrat party. “
“Are they going to double- and triple-down on what we would consider to be woke ideas or policies or are they going to try to moderate themselves the way Bill Clinton did in the 19990s and was able to kind of build a southern Democrat strategy that ended up being very, very successful for them in the 1992 and 1996 election?
“My bet is there are far too many people on the woke side of the Democrat party, I think it’s going to go more in the direction of AOC, and she should be taken very seriously.”