AOC reveals what it will take for her to seek White House or Senate

WASHINGTON — New York Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has admitted to The Post that she’s playing the waiting game, seeing how lefties fare in the midterms before deciding on a possible US Senate or White House run.“I will be making any of those considerations after the midterms,” she said last week.The far-left pol — who is backed by such extremists as controversial streamer Hasan Piker — added she’d be out helping House and Senate candidates in the midterm elections.

“I think we’ll learn a lot in November,” she said.November will see a plethora of progressives on the ballot, including Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Senate race, Angie Nixon in Florida’s Senate match-up, and House candidates such as Darializa Avila Chevalier (NY) and Melat Kiros (Colo.), who defeated incumbent Democrats in their primaries. But regardless of the outcome of those races, more and more Democrats are starting to see the radical four-term congresswoman from New York as a frontrunner for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination.They cite a combination of factors, including her strong name recognition, her fundraising prowess and a growing sentiment in the country for a candidate who will be a fighter to take on the system on behalf of the people. A top Dem even compared her to former President Barack Obama.“She’s one of the best communicators that I’ve come across in politics,” the party official told The Post.“Obama has the same ability to take esoteric philosophical ideas, to break them down and connect to regular people.

She has that skill.”Anti-establishment anger is raging through the country, which many strategists see as a similar situation to the 2016 election, when voters elected the ultimate political outsider, Donald Trump.But their anger has a different target this year.Instead of being directed at the “system” as in 2016, it’s more focused on billionaires, Big Tech and corporate America in general.A candidate who feeds into that rag...