AOC is ‘not planning’ to run for Senate in 2024

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[ad_1] “She is not planning to run for Senate in 2024. She is not planning to primary Gillibrand,” Lauren Hitt, Ocasio-Cortez’s spokesperson, told POLITICO. Other possible challengers have already opted out of the race. Former New York Rep. Mondaire Jones, a progressive, has decided he won’t run for Gillibrand’s seatContinue Reading

From agitator to insider: The evolution of AOC

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[ad_1] Then and now Ocasio-Cortez’s growing ease and seniority within the Democratic caucus is a far cry from when she arrived in the House in 2019 and decided to skip most party meetings. At the time, Ocasio-Cortez said, many veteran House Democrats treated her with a mix of admiration, disrespectContinue Reading

AOC in line to become her party’s No. 2 on Oversight panel

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[ad_1] Should Ocasio-Cortez become vice ranking member, she’s also likely to take on more responsibility in helming Democrats’ messaging and strategy on a panel that’s stocked with some of the House GOP’s most rhetorically rowdy conservatives, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). That’s in part due to the cancer treatmentContinue Reading