{"id":354751,"date":"2026-09-23T16:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T16:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354751\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T16:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T16:32:14","slug":"news-12-bronx-rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-talks-possible-presidential-run-with-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354751\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Rep Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Talks Possible Presidential Run With New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Bronx Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is considering joining the 2028 presidential race.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">In a recent interview with the New York Times, the congresswoman says she is weighing the gravity of the decision.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">She is taking several factors into account, including her age, race and the fact that no female has ever won the presidency.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12\u2019s Heather Fordham asked Cortez about her thoughts during an interview in April.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThat all depends on community support, whether it is on the presidential level, whether it&#8217;s in any other level,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The congresswoman also told New York Times that she hasn\u2019t ruled out challenging Chuck Schumer for his seat in the senate, saying she aims to work where she can \u201cdo the most good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">RELATED: <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/aoc-weighs-in-on-macklemore-ed-sheeran-controversy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AOC weighs in on Macklemore, Ed Sheeran controversy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bronx Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is considering joining the 2028 presidential race. In a recent interview with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-354751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}