Ocasio-Cortez gets personal as Democrats make case for relatability

Since announcing that she was freezing her eggs on Instagram last weekend, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has spent the week taking her 9.6 million followers along for the ride — chronicling the process in detailed videos and answering questions while administering her shots. 

On Thursday, as she was recording one of those shots, she ran out of storage on her iPhone. 

“And I have an iCloud account and it is a big one and it is supposed to upload and it’s just not,” the congresswoman said while resting on her couch. “I need IT support.”

A couple of hours later, Ocasio-Cortez posted another video of herself at the mall, writing that she was “addressing the issue” alongside three laugh-cry emojis. 

The videos sought to provide an intimate look at Ocasio-Cortez’s everyday life — from the personal to the mundane — to her large number of followers in a week where she stirred speculation about her political future.

And in the run-up to the 2028 presidential election, she’s hardly the only Democratic White House hopeful giving a look, however manufactured, to their fans.

Increasingly, prospective candidates are trying to let voters in on parts of their lives that politicians once kept behind lock and key. It’s all about the desire from voters for authenticity in political candidates.  

Politicians are sharing their personal stories and decisions along with their dinner-table conversations. They’re inviting voters not just to their living rooms but to their gyms — as was the case with Ocasio-Cortez earlier this week — and their favorite restaurants to sit beside them as they make their case for relatability and authenticity. 

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