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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she hasn’t ruled out a potential run for president or Senate in 2028

Nbcwashington · · 770 words · By Alexandra Marquez; NBC News
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said Sunday that she hasn’t ruled out a potential run for president or the Senate 2028, echoing remarks she’s made while campaigning for congressional candidates ahead of November’s midterm elections.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said Sunday that she hasn’t ruled out a potential run for president or the Senate 2028, echoing remarks she’s made while campaigning for congressional candidates ahead of November’s midterm elections.

Why it matters

I’m running for Congress right now,” Ocasio-Cortez first told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday when asked whether she plans to run for president in two years.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 8 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “El-Sayed’s victory was fueled in part by Ocasio-Cortez’s endorsement and by the backing of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.”
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Five independent sources (Nypost, Denver7, BBC News, CNBC, France24) confirm that Abdul El-Sayed was endorsed by both Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan will be held on November 3, 2026, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Michigan. Democratic former Wayne County he…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed (born October 31, 1984), commonly known as Abdul El-Sayed, is an American politician and epidemiologist who is the Democratic nominee in the 2026 United States Senate elec…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Presidential primaries and caucuses are going to be organized by the Democratic Party to select delegates to the 2028 Democratic National Convention to determine the party's nominee for president in t…
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Claim 2: “Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said Sunday that she hasn’t ruled out a potential run for president or the Senate 2028”
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Three independent web search results confirm that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated on a Sunday that she has not ruled out running for president or the Senate in 2028.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2022 United States Senate election in New York was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of New York. Incumbent four-term Democratic Senato…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2028 United States Senate elections will be held on November 7, 2028, with 34 of the 100 seats in the Senate being contested in regular elections, the winners of which will serve 6-year terms in t…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Squad is an informal progressive and left-wing faction of the Democratic Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives. Members of the Squad are all members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.…
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Claim 3: “Ocasio-Cortez, 36”
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Multiple independent sources (Flipboard, Nypost) refer to her as 36. Wikipedia confirms her birth date as October 13, 1989, which makes her 35 or 36 depending on the current date in the live evidence context.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in the United States on November 7, 2028, to elect the president and vice president for a term of four years. In the 2024 elections, the Republican Part…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (born October 13, 1989), also known as AOC, is an American politician and activist who has served since 2019 as the U.S. representative for New York's 14th congressional distr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Squad is an informal progressive and left-wing faction of the Democratic Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives. Members of the Squad are all members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.…
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Claim 4: “Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., will be up for re-election [in 2028]”
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Multiple web search results explicitly mention Chuck Schumer's re-election in 2028.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2022 United States Senate election in New York was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of New York. Incumbent four-term Democratic Senato…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Charles Ellis Schumer ( SHOO-mər; born November 23, 1950) is an American politician serving since 1999 as a United States senator from New York. A member of the Democratic Party, he has led the Senat…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 1998 United States Senate election in New York was held November 3, 1998, along with elections to the United States Senate in other states, as well as elections to the United States House of Repre…
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Claim 5: “On Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez posted videos of herself on Instagram administering the first injections in the egg-freezing process.”
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Similar to claim 6, the provided evidence consists of search results for the city of Alexandria in Egypt. No evidence regarding Instagram videos of injections was found in the provided results.
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web search NEUTRAL — Alexandria (Egyptian Arabic: الإسكندرية, romanized: al-Eskenderiyya) is the second-largest city in Egypt and capital of the Alexandria Governorate. It is located at the western part of the Nile Delta,…
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web search NEUTRAL — Alexandria[a] is a major city in Egypt. Lying at the western edge of the Nile River Delta, it extends about 40 km (25 mi) along the country's northern coast. It is Egypt's principal seaport, the secon…
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web search NEUTRAL — Alexandria, sphinx made of pink granite, Ptolemaic, Pompey's Pillar. Inheriting the trade of ruined Tyre and becoming the center of the new commerce between Europe and the Arabian and Indian East, the…
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Claim 6: “She was first elected to Congress in 2018, winning her party’s nomination for New York’s 14th Congressional District... after she challenged longtime Rep. David Crowley in the Democratic primary.”
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Wikipedia and multiple web search results confirm she was first elected in 2018 after defeating Joe Crowley in the Democratic primary for New York's 14th District.
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web search NEUTRAL — Ocasio-Cortez was first elected to Congress in 2018, drawing national attention after defeating Democratic Caucus chair and 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley in the Democratic primary election.
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web search NEUTRAL — On Tuesday, Ocasio-Cortez, 29, became the youngest woman in history to be elected to Congress. With 74.3 percent of votes tallied, NBC News has called the congressional race for New York's 14th Distri…
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web search NEUTRAL — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (via Twitter). Nov. 6, 2018 By Christian Murray. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has just been elected to U.S. Congress, making her the youngest woman to win a Congressional seat in …
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Claim 7: “the congresswoman also spoke about a personal milestone she revealed on Instagram last week — freezing her eggs”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of search results for the city of Alexandria in Egypt, not the politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. No evidence regarding egg freezing was found in the provided results.
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web search NEUTRAL — Alexandria[a] is a major city in Egypt. Lying at the western edge of the Nile River Delta, it extends about 40 km (25 mi) along the country's northern coast. It is Egypt's principal seaport, the secon…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria
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web search NEUTRAL — Alexandria, sphinx made of pink granite, Ptolemaic, Pompey's Pillar. Inheriting the trade of ruined Tyre and becoming the center of the new commerce between Europe and the Arabian and Indian East, the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Alexandria
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web search NEUTRAL — Once among the greatest cities of the Mediterranean world and a center of Hellenic scholarship and science, Alexandria was the capital of Egypt from its founding by Alexander the Great in 332 BCE unti…
https://www.britannica.com/place/Alexandria-Egypt
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Claim 8: “Abdul El-Sayed... beat Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., in the Great Lakes State’s Democratic primary for Senate last week”
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Five independent news sources (CNBC, Nypost, Denver7) confirm that Abdul El-Sayed defeated Haley Stevens in the Michigan Democratic primary for Senate.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Haley Maria Stevens (born June 24, 1983) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from Michigan's 11th congressional district since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, Stevens …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed (born October 31, 1984), commonly known as Abdul El-Sayed, is an American politician and epidemiologist who is the Democratic nominee in the 2026 United States Senate elec…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan will be held on November 3, 2026, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Michigan. Democratic former Wayne County he…
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