"Ocasio-Cortez then ran through a litany of her other signature policy positions, saying:

"A living wage is forever, workers' rights are forever, women's rights, all of that, and so anyways ... to a finer point to your question is that when you aren't attached, when you haven't been like fantasizing about being this or that since the time you were seven years old, it is tremendously liberating."

Later in the exchange, Ocasio-Cortez said she wanted to "make decisions from a place of how are we going to change the country".

Ocasio-Cortez's evocative response to Axelrod " once an adviser to the former Democratic president Barack Obama " comes amid early jockeying among her party for its 2028 presidential nomination.

That is bound to kick into a higher gear after the midterm elections in November determine the lay of the political land for the rest of Donald Trump's second presidency."

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Right now, only Obama (any Obama) polls well for 2028 Pres election.... none of the other leading Dems look like shoo-ins.

"Early 2026 polling suggests former President Barack Obama remains highly popular, with hypothetical 2028 matchups showing him leading Donald Trump by double digits (e.g., 44% to 33% or 52% to 41%).

Despite this popularity, Obama is constitutionally barred from a third term by the 22nd Amendment."