In the aftermath of Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) caving to President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans on the continuing resolution in March, talk has intensified that he should be primaried in 2028, with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) being floated as a potential contender.
Though the admittedly early polling shows AOC well ahead of Schumer in a potential primary match-up, she’s been mum on her future plans, which some have suggested may even involve a 2028 presidential run.
Whatever the case may be, in 2025, AOC has once again been putting herself out there on a national level by way of the “fight oligarchy” campaign alongside her fellow socialist, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). In light of that, she’s now viewed, as she was upon her 2019 arrival to Congress, as an emerging Democrat Party leader at a time when the party is, in effect, leaderless and desperate to counter Trump.
So with that in mind, we turn to the woke congresswoman’s latest strategy amid her “Orange Man Bad” tour, which is to call for the abolishment of ICE:
“I believe that ICE, an agency that was just formed in 2003 during the Patriot Act era, is a rogue agency that should not exist,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a fundraising email obtained by Fox News Digital.[…]”Why are you considered to be extreme?” Ocasio-Cortez asked in the fundraising email. It’s a strategy often deployed by the progressive New Yorker, according to a Fox News Digital review of Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign emails.
Naturally, the NRCC had something to say about it:
As did the Trump-Vance White House:
“AOC, Democrat Party leader, calls for abolishing ICE. Meanwhile, the brave men and women of ICE get dangerous criminal illegal immigrants off our streets and protect American citizens. Why does AOC want to stop that?” — White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson[…]Where is the congresswoman’s concern for her fellow New Yorkers who have been brutally killed, maimed, and raped by criminal illegal immigrants allowed to roam free due to New York’s so-called “sanctuary” policies?
It is indeed risky messaging from the so-called “Squad” leader, considering the 2026 midterms campaign season is not far away, and we’ve seen how Democrats have fared in past anti-law enforcement messaging:
Further, polling shows that a majority of Americans are more in line with tougher border security and illegal immigration measures, not the open borders policies that AOC promotes:
The New York Democrat, who called for the abolition of ICE during President Donald Trump’s first term, also posted content to social media earlier this year advising illegal migrants on how to evade ICE arrests.[…]Nearly seven in ten Americans support deporting migrants who are in the country illegally, an Axios-Ipsos poll from January found.Additionally, 87% of voters approve of deporting illegal migrants with criminal records, according to a New York Times/Ipsos survey conducted in January.
More recent polling taken four months after Trump took office for his second term supports the contention as well.
It will be interesting to see how many Congressional Democrats join her in her call in light of the support Trump maintains on issues like deportations and tightening the border. As always, stay tuned.
-Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter/X.-
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