Hard-boiled politics: AOCs egg-freezing vids will lure older female voters to her prez bid: pollsters

“Squad” Rep.Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s extraordinarily public social media posts about freezing her eggs are nothing more than hard-boiled politics, critics told The Post.The 36-year-old socialist lawmaker’s dramatic videos about her fertility treatments appeal to a critical slice of voters — women aged 35-49 – who could hold the key to a 2028 presidential run.“It is her way to move into the .

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older women, rather than just the young under-34-year-olds,” said Andrew Smith, who runs the Survey Center at the University of New Hampshire.The 35-49 female demographic is important include those who “are hearing that biological clock ticking more loudly,” he added.Last week, an overalls-clad AOC laid out the “ingredients” to jab her stomach on her East Elmhurst kitchen counter in one of a series of Instagram videos for her 9.7 million followers.“Welcome to my cooking show, today we’re making eggs,” she quipped.

“Don’t be weird about this, even though I know all of you will be,” she cautioned, acknowledging she was cracking political norms on her initial video.She stressed the financial toll of saving up for treatments, then said she shopped around and will pay $8,000-$9,000 for treatments.Conservative critics immediately pounced.“AOC is freezing her eggs at 36 because she wants to try to ‘relate’ to women when she runs for President in 2028,” wrote conservative activist Laura Loomer on X.

“She knows freezing eggs at 36 when you’ve been engaged for 4 years is a lost cause.So she wants a sob story about infertility when she does decide to run for president,” she scoffed. The videos kicked off immediate speculation that AOC had split with her longtime beau Riley Roberts, which the socialist lawmaker did not deny.AOC’s unusual choice to administer shots to herself on camera comes as Pew polling shows IVF is a winning political issue, with 79% of Dems and 63% of Republicans saying access to it is a good thing.“This i...