Ocasio-Cortez Open to Challenging Schumer for His Senate Seat

In an interrogation with CNN, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said she has not ruled retired challenging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for his Senate spot successful the future.

“I cognize it drives everybody nuts, but the mode that I truly consciousness astir this and the mode that I truly attack my authorities and my governmental vocation is that I bash not look astatine things and I bash not acceptable my people positionally,” Ocasio-Cortez said. 

“And I cognize there’s a batch of radical who bash not judge that, but I really, I can’t run the mode that I run and bash the things that I bash successful authorities portion trying to be, aspiring to different things oregon calculating to different things,” she added.

Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks bring to caput comments she gave Punchbowl News successful January. At the time, she said she is “very overmuch successful a spot wherever I’m trying to determine what is the astir effectual happening I tin bash to assistance our Congress, our [political] process, and our state really code the issues of clime change, wellness care, wage inequality, etc.”

Schumer is up for re-election successful 2022. He has been successful the Senate since 1999.

The interrogation was conducted successful June but volition aerial successful afloat aboriginal contiguous arsenic portion of CNN’s caller bid “Being.”