WATCH: ‘Squad’ member posts new video that fuels 2028 presidential rumors

April 25, 2025

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From Fox News: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has crisscrossed the United States with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on the “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, and Americans are speculating about whether the New York Democrat is launching a shadow campaign for president.

Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign account posted a video on X this week that invigorated those rumors as the four-term Democrat from New York City and a progressive leader proclaimed, “We are one.”

“I’m a girl from the Bronx,” Ocasio-Cortez said on a campaign-style stage in Idaho. “To be welcomed here in this state, all of us together, seeing our common cause, this is what this country is all about.”

FiveThirtyEight founder and prominent pollster Nate Silver signaled earlier this month that Ocasio-Cortez is the leading Democrat to pick up the party’s presidential nomination in 2028. In a draft 2028 pick with FiveThirtyEight’s Galen Druke, Silver chose Ocasio-Cortez as his top choice to lead the Democratic Party’s presidential ticket.

AOC posted the video from her campaign account on X, ‘Team AOC.’

“Do not let them trick you into thinking we are enemies. Do not let them trick you into thinking that we can be separated into rural and urban, Black and white and Latino. We are one,” she wrote.

Do not let them trick you into thinking we are enemies.

Do not let them trick you into thinking that we can be separated into rural and urban, Black and white and Latino.

We are one. pic.twitter.com/5rfXO1oJAT

— Team AOC (@TeamAOC) April 23, 2025

Another video the Democrat Socialist posted on April 15 also looks very much like a campaign announcement.

A better world is possible. pic.twitter.com/NPzceoY5aC

— Team AOC (@TeamAOC) April 16, 2025

While speaking on Fox News’ Outnumbered show Friday morning, commentator Tomi Lahren explained why she believes AOC would not do well once she got on a debate stage.

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Some are calling NY Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s latest post a 2028 “soft launch” and that she could be gearing up to becoming the new face of the Democratic party.

“Can she hold her own when actually challenged about policy positions?” – @TomiLahren pic.twitter.com/7QQaaEfsNo

— Outnumbered (@OutnumberedFNC) April 25, 2025

Below are more responses pouring in on social media:

Substack writer Chris Cillizza warned, “I am telling you…she is running and she is going to be more formidable than some Democrats seem to think.”

I am telling you…she is running and she is going to be more formidable than some Democrats seem to think https://t.co/rifJTFv2Ns

— Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) April 24, 2025

Commentator Meghan McCain agreed, “She’s going to run and her message of economic populism is more powerful than people are giving her credit for.”

She’s going to run and her message of economic populism is more powerful than people are giving her credit for. https://t.co/izAoGvR70y

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) April 24, 2025

Cook Political Report publisher Amy Walter wrote, “I’m seeing a lot of folks comparing AOC to Obama in his early days. In 2006, lots of House Dems wanted Obama to campaign w/ them in their swing CDs. Will AOC get that same level of interest and asks? I’m skeptical.”

I’m seeing a lot of folks comparing AOC to Obama in his early days. In 2006, lots of House Dems wanted Obama to campaign w/ them in their swing CDs. Will AOC get that same level of interest and asks? I’m skeptical. https://t.co/6mRwqHL06N

— Amy Walter (@amyewalter) April 25, 2025

Good ol’ Obama 2004 DNC rhetoric https://t.co/vjl1b5L33X

— Michel Schröder (@michelschroeder) April 25, 2025

Quite an early presidential campaign ad.

And you literally just separated people by groups – black, Latino, and white.

— Leftism (@LeftismForU) April 24, 2025

If we are one, why did you capitalize “Black” and not “white”?

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) April 23, 2025

You literally just separated us into ‘Black and white and Latino’.

And you capitalized ‘Black’ and ‘Latino’ but not ‘white’, implying that White is not a legitimate racial identity.

We see right through your vacuous word games.

— Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly) April 23, 2025

No, we are not “one”. I operate from well considered ethical principles that are fundamentally incompatible with yours. We need not be enemies, but that hinges on your willingness to leave me and my property alone, and lay no claim to it.

— John Lockeson (@JohnLockeson) April 24, 2025