One Party, Two Masks

YouGov has her net favorability at +61, one of the highest levels of popularity for any elected official.

Yale University has her coming in second place in 2028.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is drawing massive crowds and breaking fundraising records, and stirring media speculation that she is the next face of the Democratic Party. This is seemingly 180-degree turn for the Democrats, who in the span of 18 months have gone from supporting an 81-year-old centrist president to backing a 35-year-old socialist to be party leader for over 45 million Americans.

Not all Democrats are excited at the prospect of AOC leading their party. Many warn that failure to nominate a moderate, like Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro, will consign the Democratic Party to the wilderness for many more years.