AOC just threw down a major gauntlet.
Her declaration about the future is pure alarm.
What she said next should terrify every American.
As West Wing Daily reports:
One way White House hopefuls build party support for their Presidential campaign is by stump-touring for down-ballot candidates – especially ones in key swing states.
Ocasio-Cortez checked that box when she rallied for socialist Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and declared him the “future” of American politics.
“If we want a different politics, we have got to elect different politicians. And I came here to deliver one simple message: that Abdul El-Sayed represents the politics of the future,” Ocasio-Cortez ranted to the crowd.
Ocasio-Cortez declared that electing socialists like El-Sayed was critical to ramming through legislation like the Green New Deal and a socialist government healthcare scheme that banned private health insurance.
“And if we want to not only win a Senate majority, but win a Senate majority that means something new for us, that does something new for us, if we want to pass the legislation that we need, and if we want to build a coalition big enough to actually change this country, then we have got to elect Dr. Abdul El-Sayed to the Unites States Senate,” Ocasio-Cortez added.
AOC thinks that Abdul El-Sayed — who has called to defund the police and campaigns with Hasan Piker — “represents the politics of the future.” pic.twitter.com/XUa8DJq9DD
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 18, 2026
Conservatives contend that El-Sayed is another Muslim Marxist in the mold of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
El-Sayed smeared ICE as a Gestapo, falsely claiming that agents arresting illegal aliens “terrorize people on our streets.”
In 2020, El-Sayed also jumped on the defund the police bandwagon.
“We are in a moment when a lot of our public conversation gets chewed down into 280 characters or less. And that is not the best way to talk about anything. So, you’ll note, I didn’t say ‘defund the police’; I just described what needed to be done. And I do think we need to be really focused on describing or explaining rather than sort of hedging on one side or the other behind a hashtag,” audio showed El-Sayed ranting.
Ocasio-Cortez endorsed El-Sayed because the third-worldist, socialist wing of the Democratic Party that she represents is now ascendant.
A poll out of New Hampshire already showed Ocasio-Cortez in first place for Democrats in a 2028 primary.
El-Sayed winning the Senate primary with AOC’s backing would be yet another data point that Ocasio-Cortez is one of, if not the, Democratic Party frontrunners for the nomination in 2028.
