Mamdanis socialist sweep could spur AOC White House bid: insiders

The decisive primary sweep by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s left-wing comrades gave Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez such an ego boost that Democratic insiders predict it could spur a White House bid in 2028.The “Squad’s” queen bee may ditch her long-anticipated plot to unseat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for bigger game after three radical Mamdani-backed insurgents running for House seats on Tuesday defeated old-guard Dems, pushing the party even further left, the insiders said.“New York’s clean sweep was a political earthquake that shows voters generally want to shake up the system,” said Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.“Whatever percent chance [Ocasio-Cortez] put on running for president a week ago, it should be a higher percent chance now – absolutely.  It could have gone from 5% to 20%,” added Green, whose political action committee has previously helped finance campaigns for Ocasio-Cortez, Sen.

Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Rep.Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and other lefties.A top establishment Dem believes Ocasio-Cortez will run for president.“She’s never itched to be a senator, one of 100, because you don’t become a leader — that takes years and a deep record of legislating,” said the aide.

“Plus, who wants to be junior senator [in New York] to Kirsten Gillibrand?”The 36-year-old celebrity socialist already had “great potential” to seek higher office – but “even more so” after Mamdani’s radical allies Darializa Avila Chevalier, Claire Valdez and Brad Lander won their primaries, insisted a longtime New York Democratic operative.“Every light on the dashboard is flashing [that] people want generational change,” said the operative.“Everyone’s freaking out,” said a longtime party fundraiser, who chided elected Dems for for “looking stupid” by defending scandal-scarred Maine Senate nominee Graham Platner in a bid to retain his viability.Ocasio-Cortez declined to address her po...