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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will decide after this year's midterm election about whether she'll run for president, US Senate or stay in her House district representing the Bronx and Queens.
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But there's are also two deeply personal factors she says she has to consider: her race and gender.
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'Every element of this is something that's within consideration,' she told the New York Times.
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The 36-year-old old Latina lawmaker who is unmarried also told the Times age is part of her calculation as well as plans to start a family.
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Ocasio-Cortez has recently publicly discussed freezing her eggs, a decision she announced in August, while filming injecting herself.
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She split from her longtime fiancé, Riley Roberts, although she has declined to comment publicly on her relationship status.
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She said her age is part of the calculation, along with her plans for starting a family, her political movement, and the question of whether she could be competitive nationally.
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'I am 36, I'm about to turn 37 years old… and what that means for my life,' she told the Times.
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'This country has never elected a female president,' she said.
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'Why are we pretending that this is not a factor?'
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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told the New York Times
Ocasio-Cortez said she often hesitates to talk about race and gender because people can treat such comments as an excuse for why a politician might lose
Ocasio-Cortez has spoken publicly about fertility treatments and the possibility of having children, and she acknowledged that being 36 and approaching 37 means thinking about the timing of a presidential campaign alongside the rest of her life
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Pretty candidly, I think about my identity,' Ocasio-Cortez noted.
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'I'm not naïve to the fact that we are living under a very regressive administration, and I happen to be a woman, and I, you know, happen to be Latina.'
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Ocasio-Cortez said she often hesitates to talk about race and gender because people can treat such comments as an excuse for why a politician might lose.
But if she is seriously considering a presidential campaign, she said she can't simply pretend those questions do not exist.
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'It's funny because it's kind of like, everyone else is allowed to talk about it, but I'm not?'
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Her argument is rooted in the US has never elected a woman president.
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Hillary Clinton came closest, winning the popular vote in 2016 but losing the Electoral College to Donald Trump.
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'That doesn't make it impossible,' she said.
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Ocasio-Cortez also pointed to how women in politics are covered.
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She cited a video of herself fixing her hair this summer in the Bronx that drew 25 million views on X and a flood of sexualized comments.
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That, she said, is the 'most brazen' version of a bias she says she faces 'from the right and from the left.'
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Race factors in too.
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The daughter of a Puerto Rican immigrant, Ocasio-Cortez is one of the party's most prominent Latina politicians and its most recognizable progressive voice — and she doesn't dodge questions about whether that hurts her electability.
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She's also watching history: Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris are the only women to win the Democratic nomination, and both lost.
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'I absolutely empathize with the heartbreak people feel around that,' she said, 'and how those women were treated.'
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She hasn't ruled out challenging Schumer, and rejects the idea she owes anyone deference.
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But a presidential bid is binary for her: 'If I were to run in this cycle, and not win, I would be done.'
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The numbers also show just how complicated Ocasio-Cortez's national political picture could be.
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The numbers underscore the challenge.
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In a recent New York Times/Siena poll, fewer than 1 percent of Republicans viewed her favorably, versus 75 percent unfavorably.
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Among likely voters overall, just 30 percent viewed her favorably against 41 percent unfavorable — a double-digit deficit.
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RealClearPolitics’ current national Democratic presidential primary polling average has Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at 11 percent, trailing only Kamala Harris (24 percent), Gavin Newsom (14 percent) and Pete Buttigieg (13 percent).
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