AOC says she's leaving politics!
She might just be blowing smoke but the socialist from New York City is saying everything we've been hoping to hear for two long years.
Just a theory: maybe she's been offered a 7 figure TV deal and she wants to accept it but first she needs to convince her fans that leaving Congress will somehow be more helpful for the 'progressive' movement.
Speaking with the New York Times, Ocasio-Cortez said she might depart from politics as it becomes even more clear that her far-left progressive agenda is not welcome in the Democratic Party.
When asked if she is considering a Senate run in the next couple of years, Ocasio-Cortez said, "I genuinely don't know."
"I don't even know if I want to be in politics. You know, for real, in the first six months of my term, I didn't even know if I was going to run for re-election this year," she added. "It's the incoming. It's the stress. It's the violence. It's the lack of support from your own party. It's your own party thinking you're the enemy."
She continued, "But I'm serious when I tell people the odds of me running for higher office and the odds of me just going off trying to start a homestead somewhere — they're probably the same."
Ocasio-Cortez spent much of the interview lashing out at the Democratic Party for not accepting her brand of ultra-left politics, claiming that progressive policies are winning elections — not losing them.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, speaks during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S, on Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. The House on Saturday passed a bill aimed at rolling back service cuts at the Postal Service that Democrats say could harm the ability of Americans to vote by mail in the November presidential election that's being shadowed by the coronavirus pandemic. Photographer: Tom Brenner/Reuters/Bloomberg via Getty Images