Overview
- Ready for AOC launched Monday as a volunteer‑led effort to persuade Rep. Alexandria Ocasio‑Cortez to run for president in 2028 by collecting pledges and recruiting organizers.
- Organizers say they aim for 10,000 volunteer organizers and one million pledges and have recruited veterans of progressive and union campaigns to run field operations.
- The group is independent of Ocasio‑Cortez and has produced inconsistent early metrics, with organizers claiming roughly 4,000 signatures while the public website showed a smaller count the next day.
- The Federal Election Commission flagged the group's original use of Ocasio‑Cortez’s name and required a name change for the sponsoring PAC, forcing the group to relabel itself Ready for 2028.
- Ocasio‑Cortez has not decided and says she will deliberate privately, and the New York City DSA will vote later this month on whether to urge her to run, a move that could shape the progressive block in the 2028 primary.