It’s an unfortunate fact of life: In just a few short weeks, the 2028 election cycle will officially be underway. And judging by her recent travel schedule, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is getting a head start on those proceedings. The big question is whether she’s aiming for the Capitol or the White House.

For the past few days, Ocasio-Cortez has been making her way through upstate and western New York, far from her Queens and Bronx home district. The proximate purpose of the trip is to get out the vote for Democrats ahead of the midterms. But given AOC’s recent comments about her political future, it’s hard not to speculate that she’s also laying the groundwork for a Senate campaign — or maybe even a presidential one.

She kicked things off in Buffalo on Saturday, where she met with Democratic mayor Sean Ryan and ran a workshop that aimed to get “inactive voters” — people who have not cast ballots in years but remain eligible to do so — to the polls. The event was part of a larger AOC-led initiative, Project Reactivation, aimed at reaching about 100,000 inactive voters across New York.

On Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez campaigned with moderate........

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