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Liz Wolfe | 9.22.2026 9:33 AM

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Oh no: "There's an argument that some make that this is a very unique political window and, oftentimes in politics, you do only get one shot," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.) told The New York Times in a just-released interview, where she publicly mulls a presidential run. "And you don't—and just in life in general—life doesn't wait for you to be ready for things. Sometimes life just makes things ready for you."

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Ocasio-Cortez, after almost eight years in Congress as a U.S. representative for Queens and the Bronx and many, many fawning news cycles in which her democratic socialist views are received rather warmly, is now considering either a run for president or going after Chuck Schumer's Senate seat. Either one would be an elevation—but also a risk.

Schumer is 75, but it's not clear that he's interested in stepping aside for an ascendant Ocasio-Cortez; this may well be Ocasio-Cortez trying to push him out. "I don't think that my decisions would come down to deference," she told........

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