2026-06-11T09:00:09.782Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/11/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-2028-strategy
- 众议员亚历山德里亚·奥卡西奥-科特兹仍未决定2028年是参选总统、参议员，还是寻求连任众议院席位。
- 这位纽约国会女议员正通过背书活动和委员会工作，努力将自己的影响力拓展至进步派基础之外。
- 她的顾问团队正筹划秋季巡回活动，测试她能否赢得全国性竞选。
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亚历山德里亚·奥卡西奥-科特兹近来迷上了编织。
她正慢悠悠地织制一批帽子和毛衣，同时向助手们询问自己考虑背书的竞选活动，或是与众议院同僚协作敲定法案内容、如何对外传达工作进展。有些织好的衣物她自己穿，有些则作为礼物送出。
那些她突然闯入南希·佩洛西办公室开展《绿色新政》静坐抗议的日子早已远去。如今，她会向新晋众议员分享自己早年与党内领导层对立的经验，还兴奋地谈起自己在众议院能源与商务委员会的工作：今年4月她在委员会听证会上质询美国环境保护署署长李·泽尔丁的片段引发了病毒式传播。
这位36岁的纽约国会女议员确实尚未决定2028年的规划，届时她既可以参选总统，也可以竞选参议员查克·舒默空出的席位。但奥卡西奥-科特兹正着力将自己的影响力拓展至民主党最坚定蓝营基础之外的全国范围，并私下明确表示，无论最终决定如何，她都无意仅仅成为一名抗议型候选人。
无论她参选哪一职位——包括可能只是寻求连任她那张安全度极高的众议院席位——她都表示要确保获胜。她背书的任何候选人、支持的任何立法提案也都要如此。
“我们看到了机会，没错，在摇摆不定的独立选民中如此，在共和党人中也是如此：他们未必认同她的所有观点，但相信她为人正直，相信她会为民众做事，”一位与她关系密切的人士表示，“这一点将在未来几个月得到检验：选情艰难的民主党候选人是否会意识到，她对自己的竞选是净加分项？”
奥卡西奥-科特兹的助手们正制定秋季行程计划，旨在测试她在狂热支持她的基础选民之外的吸引力——此前她曾多次陪同伯尼·桑德斯开展“对抗寡头政治”竞选活动，此次行程也将脱离桑德斯的政治运作体系。此次巡回活动还将测试她本人对总统竞选工作强度的适应能力。
她一直与美国民主社会主义者组织以及桑德斯保持联系，同时也与前总统乔·拜登保持互动。她还积累了亮眼的初选背书战绩，就在上周，她背书的三名候选人分别在新泽西州、加利福尼亚州和蒙大拿州胜出或晋级。
宾夕法尼亚州州议员克里斯·拉布去年5月末在费城众议院席位初选中获得奥卡西奥-科特兹背书，他表示她的支持与众不同。当她意外致电告知将背书自己时，拉布邀请她一同助选，并赶忙敲定了选举日前周五的活动行程。
“这真正为少数族裔反建制进步派打开了大门，”拉布告诉CNN。
佐治亚州州议员鲁瓦·罗曼2024年民主党全国代表大会期间参与组织亲巴勒斯坦抗议活动时首次与奥卡西奥-科特兹建立联系。如今罗曼正参选州参议员，在奥卡西奥-科特兹近期访问佐治亚州期间与其会面。
“‘背书会对你有帮助吗？’”罗曼回忆起这位女议员的提问，并补充道自己的答复是：“这是民主党初选。你在佐治亚州民主党选民中支持率领先40多个百分点。我能为你做的都可以安排！”
奥卡西奥-科特兹在某些情况下也会谨慎保持距离。尽管桑德斯和参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦都为缅因州联邦参议员候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳举办过集会，她并未背书。她还与前幕僚赛卡特·查克拉巴蒂保持距离，后者在佩洛西所在的旧金山选区选举中位列第三，尽管他在竞选期间不断提及奥卡西奥-科特兹的名字。
她始终坚定谴责前众议员玛乔丽·泰勒·格林，以及那位呼吁“为美国犹太复国主义者设立监狱”的得克萨斯州民主党候选人，即便她遭到了左翼社交媒体上最激进言论者的攻击。
当汤姆·斯泰尔的加州州长竞选团队在攻击泽维尔·贝塞拉处理移民儿童问题的广告中未经预告就使用了她的镜头时，经奥卡西奥-科特兹盟友的低调沟通，广告被重新剪辑，她的镜头被移除。
但她是否具备赢得全国性竞选的能力，或是是否有能力开展这样的竞选，就连支持者也在提出疑问。
她圈子里的一些人承认，她的知名度和超凡的政治技巧或许让大家产生了过高期待。尽管依托桑德斯的全国竞选团队带来了诸多优势和庞大的 crowds，但就在2028年竞选筹备正式开始前几个月，奥卡西奥-科特兹几乎要从头开始独立运作，团队规模也小于其他许多潜在竞争者。
“这需要由她来决定自己要投入多大精力，毕竟所有人都会等着说她还没准备好，”一位参与过与她圈子多次对话的人士表示，“她有天赋，但她有足够的团队吗？”
奥卡西奥-科特兹本人时常提及今年2月慕尼黑安全会议上的那个时刻，那本应是她在国际舞台的首次重磅亮相，她当时谈到全球富人如何操纵工人阶级。
但随后她在被问及若北京未来发动入侵，美国是否应出兵保卫台湾时陷入卡顿——这是美中关系的核心议题，两党历任总统都以“战略模糊”为由拒绝直接回应。
“嗯，你知道，我觉得……这个……嗯……这是……非常……嗯……长期以来的美国政策，”奥卡西奥-科特兹当时说道，“而我们希望的是，确保永远不会走到那一步。”
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据与她交谈过的人士透露，观看回放和不断涌入的评论是一段难熬的经历。她对反弹感到意外，也很恼火。
几位原本抱有同情的批评者告诉CNN，他们看到了更深层次的问题：她不仅准备不足，而且不知道该如何准备，这让她在这次非直播、也不是在国会山记者围堵场合的即兴时刻，没能适应聚光灯——后者她近来已越来越乐于应对。
经过几天的善后，她向身边人表示，自己当时下定决心：她所处的位置没有现成的政治模板，而她也没有机会在不引发国际新闻关注的前提下，对自己即将开展的工作进行测试。因此，与其纠结他人的看法，不如干脆畅所欲言，坚持自己的行事方式。
与这位国会女议员交谈过的人士表示，这让她既兴奋又紧张。
“她相对年轻，非常聪明且富有才华，意外成为了这一代人的核心政治声音——并且她对此非常认真，”一位外部顾问告诉CNN，“但就像任何一个并非从8岁起就为这个职位做准备的普通人一样，她对如何利用自己的平台、以及如今拥有的权力保持谨慎，这是理所应当的。”
意识形态盟友和支持者心存疑虑，还有人抱怨自己被排除在决策之外。例如，尽管桑德斯发起的政治组织“我们的革命”在她首次参选时就给予了支持，而桑德斯本人当时并未表态，但她并未加入该组织组织的动员电话会议。
“她凭借一己之力打造了庞大的个人品牌，她获得的战略建议是可以单打独斗，”“我们的革命”执行主任约瑟夫·吉瓦盖斯表示，“基层组织中有很多人都希望能与她合作，推进我们共同为之奋斗的事业。”
不过值得注意的是，每次“我们的革命”为成员开展2028年总统候选人偏好民调时，她都位居榜首。
跳出桑德斯的固有阵营
桑德斯将在2028年大选前几周年满87岁，就连他本人也承认不会再次参选总统。但正如他在电视和竞选活动中不断强调的那样，他比以往任何时候都更渴望延续自己的政治影响力。
奥卡西奥-科特兹是他的当然继承人，两人每周都会进行多次长短不一的通话，闲聊、建言，偶尔还会争论。桑德斯希望有人牵头推进众议院版本的新数据中心监管法案——他坚信人工智能对人类构成威胁，这或许是他阻止人工智能的最后一项政治使命——他自然而然地找到了奥卡西奥-科特兹。
无需桑德斯前竞选经理兼首席政治顾问法伊兹·沙基尔加入奥卡西奥-科特兹的核心幕僚团队，或是他前通讯总监迈克·卡斯卡担任她的办公室主任，就能知晓她将轻松获得桑德斯的背书。即便左翼偶尔会对她发出抱怨，但任何审视潜在竞选阵容的操盘手都不会怀疑，她可以轻松争取到桑德斯的大部分支持者，甚至吸纳他的大部分团队成员。
桑德斯留下的庞大且极具辨识度的政治遗产，让她和身边的小圈子在努力打造个人身份的同时，又不愿与他拉开过大距离。
目前这一阵营中唯一的真正竞争对手是众议员罗·卡纳，他曾是2020年桑德斯竞选团队联合主席，知名度远不及奥卡西奥-科特兹，但更为积极地宣传自己的总统竞选抱负。
“拥有不止一位进步派候选人或许会很有趣，”卡纳表示，他还提到奥卡西奥-科特兹的参选决定不会影响自己。“我们已经有太多建制派候选人和老面孔参选了。”
其他几位2028年潜在候选人的顾问私下告诉CNN，他们希望奥卡西奥-科特兹参选——这种想法也得到了野心勃勃的纽约政界人士的认同，他们认为如果奥卡西奥-科特兹参选参议员，自己原本有望拿下的席位就会轻松被她拿下。
潜在对手的团队认为，如果奥卡西奥-科特兹参选总统，很可能会锁定左翼25%至30%的支持率，这意味着其他候选人将只能竞争剩余选票，而不必费心去争取那些他们认为永远无法完全说服的选民。
更高的知名度也意味着她的负面评价比例高于其他许多潜在候选人。但其他候选人的顾问也承认，在可能出现的、有十多位 viable 竞争者的分裂型竞选中，这也会让她处于有利位置，只需稍作积累就能成为候选人——尤其是如果她成为少数参选的女性和少数族裔候选人之一的话。
回到华盛顿，奥卡西奥-科特兹已经在拓展自己的影响力范围，超越了左翼阵营。
就在本周，众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯任命她为其中期选举议程医疗保健工作组的联合召集人。几周前，国会进步党团将她提出的儿童保育费用封顶法案作为核心议程——该法案原本由温和派众议员米基·谢里尔发起，谢里尔辞职出任新泽西州州长后，奥卡西奥-科特兹接手并与沃伦合作推进该法案。
“她能用让数百万互联网用户听得懂的方式传达理念，但在华盛顿这里，大家会说‘这是米基·谢里尔的法案，我们正在完善它，这样共和党州长就无法阻止儿童保育补贴扩大’，”进步党团主席、得克萨斯州众议员格雷格·卡萨尔表示，“这能让这里的人们相信我们能够通过这项法案。”
谢里尔也表示认可。
“我非常高兴亚历克斯——这位劳工阶层的捍卫者——接手了我和沃伦参议员曾全力推动的法案，”她在一份声明中告诉CNN。
（判断哪位同事真正与她交谈过的一个方法是：有人称呼她为“亚历克斯”，有人则称她为“AOC”。）
奥卡西奥-科特兹今年5月被问及是否会在2028年参选总统或参议员时的回答引发广泛关注，她表示人们“误以为我的抱负是某个头衔或席位”。
“我的抱负是改变这个国家，”她说道，并提到自己希望推行单一支付者医疗保健制度和“生活工资”。“总统来了又走。参议员、众议院席位，民选官员来了又走。”
今年春天，当奥卡西奥-科特兹与助手们讨论数据中心监管相关会议行程时，她指示将佐治亚州纳入为期三天的密集巡回活动。
得知自己将在最高法院削弱《投票权法案》数日后抵达该州，她要求助手们增加在亚特兰大埃比尼泽浸信会教堂的周日礼拜活动——这座教堂曾由马丁·路德·金领导，如今由参议员拉斐尔·沃诺克担任资深牧师。
礼拜开始前一小时，教堂方面致电询问她是否愿意发言，她的助手起初予以拒绝，称尚未准备好演讲稿。她推翻了助手的决定，用接下来的45分钟构思了自己想要讲的内容。
沃诺克介绍她为“全国良知的声音”，她手持麦克风发表了四分钟的布道，提及先知底波拉和但以理，以及金的遗产，呼吁在场会众及其他人团结一致。
“我们的信仰是基石，赋予我们在压倒性劣势面前战斗的勇气，”她对会众说道，“今天我来到这里，弟兄姐妹们，只想传达一个简单的信息：我们站在一起，我们绝不会倒退。”
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奥卡西奥-科特兹还时常谈起去年随桑德斯巡回盐湖城时产生的一种感触，当时她站在舞台上，看着台下成千上万红州的民主党选民，这些人常常被忽视。
她开始提及“芥菜种的信心”，引用《马太福音》中的经文，说明信念和信仰可以移山。
“当我们开始与他人合作，开始共同建设，开始互相帮忙照看孩子，好让对方能够出门组织街区活动，”她最近在蒙大拿州米苏拉的一次活动中说道，“你永远不知道会发生什么。”
The road test: Inside Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s strategy ahead of a potential 2028 campaign
2026-06-11T09:00:09.782Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/11/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-2028-strategy
- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez remains undecided about whether she’ll run for president, Senate or reelection to the House in 2028.
- The New York congresswoman is working to expand her appeal beyond the progressive base with endorsements and committee work.
- Her advisers are planning a fall tour to test whether she can win a national campaign.
AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been doing a lot of knitting lately.
She’s slowly churning out a collection of hats and sweaters as she quizzes aides about campaigns she’s thinking of endorsing or working with House colleagues on what to include in bills and how to communicate what they’re doing. Some of the knits, she wears herself. Some she gives out as gifts.
Long gone are the days of her spontaneously joining a sit-in about the Green New Deal in Nancy Pelosi’s office. Now, she advises newer House members to learn from her early experiences of antagonizing party leadership and talks excitedly about her work on the House Energy and Commerce Committee: Her grilling of Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin during a committee hearing in April created a viral moment.
The New York congresswoman is truly undecided about what she’ll do in 2028, when she can run for president or for the seat held by Sen. Chuck Schumer. But Ocasio-Cortez, 36, is positioning herself to try to reach nationally beyond the deepest blue parts of the Democratic base — and making clear in private that whatever she decides, she has no interest in being merely a protest candidate.
Whatever she runs for — including possibly just re-election to her ultra-safe House seat, which has provided quite the platform already — she says she wants to make sure she wins. Same goes for any candidates she backs. And for legislation she gets behind.
“We’re seeing an opening, definitely among swingy independents, but also among Republicans: They don’t agree with everything she says, but they believe she is honest and that she’s going to work for people,” said one person close to her. “That will be put to the test in the coming months: Will Democratic candidates in tough races recognize she is a net positive for their campaign?”
Ocasio-Cortez’s aides are putting together a fall schedule meant to beta-test her appeal beyond a base that adores her and mostly outside of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ political operation after making several stops on his “Fighting Oligarchy” campaign. The tour will also test her own appetite for what a presidential campaign would entail.
She’s kept up with the Democratic Socialists of America and Sanders, but also with former President Joe Biden. And she’s been collecting a strong record of primary endorsements, with three people she backed winning or advancing in New Jersey, California and Montana just last week.
Chris Rabb, the Pennsylvania state legislator whom Ocasio-Cortez backed late in his mid-May primary for a House seat in Philadelphia, said her support was unlike anyone else’s. When she surprised him by calling him to say she was endorsing, he invited her to come campaign with him and scrambled to get her the Friday before Election Day.
“It really broke open the doors for anti-establishment progressives of color,” Rabb told CNN.
Georgia state Rep. Ruwa Romman first connected with Ocasio-Cortez as she helped organize a pro-Palestinian protest outside the 2024 Democratic National Convention. Now running for state Senate, Romman met with Ocasio-Cortez during the congresswoman’s recent swing through the state.
“‘Would an endorsement help?’” Romman remembers the congresswoman asking, adding her reply was: “This is a Democratic primary. You poll like plus-40 among Democrats in Georgia. Anything you can give me!”
Ocasio-Cortez is also being careful about not getting involved in some cases. She hasn’t backed Graham Platner in Maine’s Senate race even though both Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren hosted rallies for him. She kept her distance from a former chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, who came in third in Pelosi’s San Francisco district despite his own efforts to constantly invoke Ocasio-Cortez on the trail.
She stayed firm in her denunciations of former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as well as the Texas Democratic candidate who called for “a prison for American Zionists,” even though she received attacks from some of the loudest social media posters on the left.
And when Tom Steyer’s California gubernatorial campaign ran an attack ad against Xavier Becerra’s handling of immigrant children that featured her without a heads-up, the ad was recut so she no longer appeared after some quiet outreach from outside Ocasio-Cortez allies.
But whether she has what it would take to win a national campaign or has the capacity to do it is a question even boosters are asking.
Some in her circle acknowledge that her name recognition and preternatural political skills may have left them spoiled. And for all the benefits and monster crowds that came from folding into Sanders’ national operation, it left Ocasio-Cortez starting mostly fresh on her own just months before the 2028 maneuvering officially begins, with a smaller team than many other potential contenders.
“It’s for her to decide how serious she’s going to be, since people are going to be waiting to say she’s not ready,” said one person who’s been involved in several conversations with her circle. “She has the talent, but does she have the team?”
What Ocasio-Cortez herself keeps coming back to is that moment in February at the Munich Security Conference, during what was meant to be her big debut on the international stage, talking about how the rich were manipulating the working class globally.
Instead, she appeared stumped by a question about whether the US should commit troops to defend Taiwan in the event of a future invasion by Beijing – a cornerstone question of US-China relations that presidents of both parties have handled by maintaining “strategic ambiguity,” refusing to answer that question outright.
“Um, you know, I think that, uh … this is … such a … you know, I think that this is a, um … this is of course a … a very longstanding, um … policy of the United States,” Ocasio-Cortez said then. “And I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point.”
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Watching the replays and comments piling up was a rough moment, according to people who spoke to her. She was surprised by the backlash. Annoyed.
Several otherwise sympathetic critics told CNN they see a deeper problem: Not only didn’t she prepare herself well enough, but she didn’t know how to, and that left her not ready enough for the spotlight in an unscripted moment that wasn’t on Instagram Live or in the reporter scrums at the US Capitol she’s started more eagerly making herself available for.
After days of cleanup, she told people close to her, she was dug in: There was no political model for the position she’s in, and she didn’t get to road test any of what she’s going to be doing without making international news. So rather than getting caught up about what others will think, she might as well just say what she wants and keep doing it her way.
That thrills and terrifies her, those who’ve talked with the congresswoman say.
“She’s a relatively young, very smart and talented person who unexpectedly found herself in this position as the leading political voice of her generation – and she takes that very seriously,” an outside adviser told CNN. “But like any normal person would who has not been planning for this since they were eight years old, she’s rightly cautious about how she uses her platform, and about the power she now wields.”
Ideological allies and fans have their doubts, along with some gripes about being left out of her decision-making. She hasn’t, for example, joined an organizing call put together by the Sanders-inspired political group Our Revolution, even though the group backed her first race when the senator himself did not.
“She’s built a big brand by herself. She’s getting strategic advice that you can go it alone,” said Joseph Geevarghese, Our Revolution’s executive director. “There are a lot of people in grassroots organizations that would benefit from working with her on advancing the issues that we’re all fighting for.”
Notably, though every time Our Revolution polls its members for their 2028 favorites, she’s at the top of the list.
Moving beyond just the Sanders lane
Sanders will turn 87 a few weeks before the 2028 election, and even he has acknowledged he won’t be running for president again. But as he’s been making clear constantly on TV and on the trail, he is more intent than ever in extending his influence.
Ocasio-Cortez, with whom he kibbitzes, advises and occasionally argues with over short and long phone calls multiple times per week, is his obvious heir. It’s no coincidence that when Sanders wanted someone to carry the House version of his bill to regulate new data centers — convinced that AI is a threat to humanity and perhaps his final political mission to stop — he turned to Ocasio-Cortez.
It doesn’t take Sanders’ former campaign manager and top political adviser Faiz Shakir becoming part of Ocasio-Cortez’s kitchen cabinet, or his former communications director Mike Casca now as her chief of staff, to know that she’d have the inside track for his endorsement. And for the occasional grumbling on the left about her, no operative sizing up the prospective field doubts she could easily line up most of the Sanders support, including absorbing most of his staff.
Sanders’s immense and very specific shadow leaves her and her small circle of trust trying to figure out how to better establish her own identity without distancing too much from him.
The only real competition among that flank for now would be Rep. Ro Khanna, the 2020 Sanders campaign co-chair who’s nowhere near as well-known but much more active in trying to get people to pay attention to his presidential hopes.
“It may be interesting to have more than one progressive,” Khanna said, noting that Ocasio-Cortez’s decision about running wouldn’t affect his own. “We have plenty of establishment candidates and retreads running.”
Advisers to several other 2028 prospective candidates without the same claim to or interest in the Sanders wing told CNN privately they’re hoping she runs — a feeling shared by ambitious New York politicians who assume she’d make an easy romp of the Senate race they want to win instead.
Prospective opponents’ teams figure Ocasio-Cortez in the presidential field would likely lock down 25%-30% on the left, which they think would leave the other candidates to compete for the rest without having to appeal to voters they worry they could never fully satisfy.
Higher name recognition means she already also has higher negative numbers than many of the others looking at running. But those other candidates’ advisers also acknowledge that in what’s likely to be a splintered field with a dozen or more viable contenders, that would also put her in a strong position to build just a little bit and become the nominee — especially if she turns out to be one of the few women and few people of color running.
Back in Washington, Ocasio-Cortez is already building past that left flank.
Just this week, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries made her the co-convener of the healthcare working group for his midterm agenda. A few weeks earlier, the Congressional Progressive Caucus made a centerpiece of its agenda her bill to cap the cost of childcare — on which she is collaborating with Warren after taking it over when the original sponsor and generally more moderate Mikie Sherrill resigned to become governor of New Jersey.
“She can communicate that in a way that makes sense to millions of people on the internet, but here in DC, it’s, ‘This is the Mikie Sherrill bill, and we’re polishing it up so that Republican governors can’t block the childcare expansion,” said Texas Rep. Greg Casar, the chair of the progressive caucus. “It’s the kind of thing that gives people inside here the confidence we can pass that bill.”
Sherrill approves too.
“I’m so glad Alex, a champion for working people, has picked up this bill Sen. Warren and I fought hard for,” she told CNN in a statement.
(One way to tell which of her colleagues have actually had a conversation with her is who refers to her as “Alex” and who calls her “AOC.”)
Ocasio-Cortez drew widespread attention with her answer to a May question about whether she would run for president or Senate in 2028, saying people “assume my ambition is a title or a seat.”
“My ambition is to change this country,” she said, noting she wanted to enact single-payer healthcare and a “living wage.” “Presidents come and go. Senate, House seats, elected officials come and go.”
As Ocasio-Cortez discussed a trip this spring for meetings about regulating data centers, she told aides to look to Georgia for what became an intense three-day swing.
Realizing that she would be there in the days after the US Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, she told them to add a Sunday stop at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, once led by Martin Luther King Jr. and now by Sen. Raphael Warnock as senior pastor.
When, an hour before the service began, a person from the church called to ask if she would speak, her aides initially pushed back. They weren’t ready to get a speech to her. She overruled them and spent the next 45 minutes building out what she wanted to say.
Called up by Warnock as a “national voice of conscience,” she did a four-minute preach, microphone in hand, picking up the legacies of the prophets Deborah and Daniel, and of King, calling on the congregation there and beyond to stand together.
“Our faith is the foundation that gives us the courage to fight in the face of overwhelming odds,” she told the congregation. “I’m here today, brothers and sisters, with a simple message: We stand together and we are not going back.”
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Ocasio-Cortez also keeps talking about a feeling she first got on a Salt Lake City stop of her tour with Sanders last year, looking out from the stage and thinking about the thousands of Democrats in red states who often get overlooked.
She started talking about the “faith of the mustard seed,” a reference to a verse from the Book of Matthew about how conviction and belief can move mountains.
“When we start working with another, when we start building together, when we start watching each other’s kids so the other can go out and organize the block,” as she put it in a recent stop back to Missoula, Montana. “You never know what can happen.”