AOC dodges on 2028 White House run at Munich Security Conference
What's the administration thinking here?
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) strategically danced around questioning on her political future during an event at the Munich Security Conference on Friday.
At a panel focused on responding to the rise of populism, New York Times journalist Katrin Bennhold bluntly asked the New York congresswoman: “So when you run for president, are you going to impose a wealth tax or a billionaire’s tax?”
Ocasio-Cortez did not directly answer whether she would run for president in 2028: “We don’t have to wait for any one president to impose a wealth tax. I think that it needs to be done expeditiously.”
The progressive lawmaker is among the handful of potential Democratic 2028 presidential contenders who traveled to Germany for the conference.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) are also in attendance.
Ocasio-Cortez was asked during the question-and-answer portion of the panel why it was important to attend the conference and who paid for her travel. Ocasio-Cortez said her office paid for the flight.
“I think one of the reasons why, not just myself, but many of our colleagues here, in fact, Democrats, many Democrats that are here as well, is because we want to tell a larger story, that what is happening is indeed very grave, and we are in a new era,” Ocasio-Cortez said about the influx of Democrats in Munich.
The progressive Democrat name-checked President Donald Trump’s Jan. 3 capture of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his public pressure for the United States to acquire Greenland as a territory as a threat to “democracies globally.”
MUNICH SUMMIT BECOMES EARLY STAGE FOR 2028 DEMOCRATS
Ocasio-Cortez also accused the Democratic Party and the GOP of not focusing enough on working-class issues, although much of her public remarks focused on pushing for the U.S. to return to “a rules-based order.”
“The United States right now is experiencing a political pendulum, and depending, really, the party that is seen most as betraying the working class tends to be the governing party in this moment. Right now, that happens to be the Republican majority,” she said.
What's the administration thinking here?
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) strategically danced around questioning on her political future during an event at the Munich Security Conference on Friday.
At a panel focused on responding to the rise of populism, New York Times journalist Katrin Bennhold bluntly asked the New York congresswoman: “So when you run for president, are you going to impose a wealth tax or a billionaire’s tax?”
Ocasio-Cortez did not directly answer whether she would run for president in 2028: “We don’t have to wait for any one president to impose a wealth tax. I think that it needs to be done expeditiously.”
The progressive lawmaker is among the handful of potential Democratic 2028 presidential contenders who traveled to Germany for the conference.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) are also in attendance.
Ocasio-Cortez was asked during the question-and-answer portion of the panel why it was important to attend the conference and who paid for her travel. Ocasio-Cortez said her office paid for the flight.
“I think one of the reasons why, not just myself, but many of our colleagues here, in fact, Democrats, many Democrats that are here as well, is because we want to tell a larger story, that what is happening is indeed very grave, and we are in a new era,” Ocasio-Cortez said about the influx of Democrats in Munich.
The progressive Democrat name-checked President Donald Trump’s Jan. 3 capture of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his public pressure for the United States to acquire Greenland as a territory as a threat to “democracies globally.”
MUNICH SUMMIT BECOMES EARLY STAGE FOR 2028 DEMOCRATS
Ocasio-Cortez also accused the Democratic Party and the GOP of not focusing enough on working-class issues, although much of her public remarks focused on pushing for the U.S. to return to “a rules-based order.”
“The United States right now is experiencing a political pendulum, and depending, really, the party that is seen most as betraying the working class tends to be the governing party in this moment. Right now, that happens to be the Republican majority,” she said.
AOC dodges on 2028 White House run at Munich Security Conference
What's the administration thinking here?
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) strategically danced around questioning on her political future during an event at the Munich Security Conference on Friday.
At a panel focused on responding to the rise of populism, New York Times journalist Katrin Bennhold bluntly asked the New York congresswoman: “So when you run for president, are you going to impose a wealth tax or a billionaire’s tax?”
Ocasio-Cortez did not directly answer whether she would run for president in 2028: “We don’t have to wait for any one president to impose a wealth tax. I think that it needs to be done expeditiously.”
The progressive lawmaker is among the handful of potential Democratic 2028 presidential contenders who traveled to Germany for the conference.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) are also in attendance.
Ocasio-Cortez was asked during the question-and-answer portion of the panel why it was important to attend the conference and who paid for her travel. Ocasio-Cortez said her office paid for the flight.
“I think one of the reasons why, not just myself, but many of our colleagues here, in fact, Democrats, many Democrats that are here as well, is because we want to tell a larger story, that what is happening is indeed very grave, and we are in a new era,” Ocasio-Cortez said about the influx of Democrats in Munich.
The progressive Democrat name-checked President Donald Trump’s Jan. 3 capture of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his public pressure for the United States to acquire Greenland as a territory as a threat to “democracies globally.”
MUNICH SUMMIT BECOMES EARLY STAGE FOR 2028 DEMOCRATS
Ocasio-Cortez also accused the Democratic Party and the GOP of not focusing enough on working-class issues, although much of her public remarks focused on pushing for the U.S. to return to “a rules-based order.”
“The United States right now is experiencing a political pendulum, and depending, really, the party that is seen most as betraying the working class tends to be the governing party in this moment. Right now, that happens to be the Republican majority,” she said.
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