‘Don’t underestimate AOC’ in 2028

A former Trump administration official believes that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) could make a formidable presidential candidate and warn Republicans not to underestimate her.

Monica Crowley, former assistant secretary of public affairs at the Treasury Department, discussed the progressive legislature’s options Friday night. Fox News‘ The Ingraham angle.

Guest host Lisa Boothe first noted how Ocasio-Cortez asked voters who voted for her but not for Vice President Kamala Harris why they did so. Some mentioned the economy, a need for “change” and the war in Gaza, as well as the feeling that Ocasio-Cortez and Donald Trump do not represent “the establishment.”

“She did this Instagram thing where she reached out to her voters and split-ticket voters for Trump and asked them why they split the ticket, and a lot of them said they liked her accessibility. She does these Instagram Lives , and we saw that with Donald Trump as well — being willing to sit down with Joe Rogan, go on X and do these three-hour interviews,” Boothe said.

“Is it fair to exclude her or is there something for her?” she asked Crowley.

Ocasio-Cortez has “tremendous grassroots support,” Crowley responded, adding that the congresswoman “was an early adopter of social media” and that she has continued to “connect directly with voters.”

Crowley framed the 2024 election as the country ending “wokeness” and said she doubted the population would reverse course in four years.

“But,” she continued, “just a warning to the Republicans, to my party: Don’t underestimate AOC. She’s young, she’s alive, she’s attractive. I think she’s wrong about everything, but she has real support from the grassroots, and all the energy and activism in the Democratic Party remains with the revolutionary left of which she is a part.”

“So,” Crowley concluded, “every time the Republicans have underestimated the Democrats, we’ve ended up with Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. So let’s not do it again in four years.”