Overview

• Axios reports that Ocasio-Cortez is positioning for either a presidential run or a 2028 New York Senate bid and has not made a decision.
• Her operation has brought on former senior advisers to Bernie Sanders as it prepares structures that could support a national or statewide campaign.
• Her team is spending heavily on digital advertising, adding hundreds of thousands of small-dollar donors and growing her social following to about 36.7 million.
• She has boosted visibility through Sanders' national Fighting Oligarchy tour and a series of upstate New York town halls, including a stop in Plattsburgh.
• Polling remains mixed: surveys of New York Democrats show her leading Chuck Schumer in a hypothetical primary (Data for Progress 55%–36%), while national primary polls generally place her behind several other potential 2028 contenders.