‘My Ambition Is To Change This Country’: AOC Talks About Her Political Future
Congresswoman addresses aspirations for higher office
Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s political ambitions are not tied to a specific job, according to the congresswoman.
They are “much bigger” than either a potential run for president or a race for Senate in two years, the prominent New York Democrat said.
One of the nation’s most prominent progressive lawmakers, Ocasio-Cortez spoke at length about her political future, and other topics Friday in a conversation with former advisor to President Barack Obama, David Axelrod.
Axelrod specifically noted that many Americans hope that she runs for the Democratic nomination for president in 2028, or takes on a race for the US Senate that year.
The congresswoman said that the specific job that she holds isn’t what’s important.
She referred to a recent editorial published in The Washington Post that was critical of her.
“They assume that my ambition is a title or a seat, and my ambition is way bigger than that,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “My ambition is to change this country,” she added, to massive cheering and applause from the audience gathered to hear her at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.
“Presidents come and go. Senate, House seats [and] elected officials come and go,” she said. “But single-payer healthcare is forever. A living wage is forever. Workers’ rights, women’s rights— all of that.”
It’s “tremendously liberating” not to be attached to a given higher office or position.
“I get to wake up every day and say, ‘How am I going to meet this moment?’”
View a video clip of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks here:
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