Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., sparked rumors she could be considering a run for president in 2028 after posting a campaign-style video on social media. (Steven Ferdman/GC Images)
"The only chance they have to get away with such an unpopular and hurtful agenda is to stoke deep divisions along race, identity and culture to keep us fighting and distracted," she said at a rally in Boise, Idaho, earlier this month.
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During the 2024 presidential campaign, Ocasio-Cortez told The Independent that "as an elected official, who is a prominent woman of color, I've seen a lot," adding that Vice President Kamala Harris has her own experience with misogyny and racism.
"I think we brace ourselves for some of the unfair misogynistic and racial undertones, overtones, explicit attacks on implicit attacks that she may be subjected to, and it's important for us to keep our eyes open for what is fair, but also what is unfair," she said.
Since Ocasio-Cortez was elected in 2018 to represent parts of Queens and the Bronx in the U.S. House of Representatives, unseating a 10-term incumbent, she has framed her success as shattering barriers to gender and racial justice in the United States.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listens to the testimony of the witnesses during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing with Sanctuary City Mayors on Capitol Hill March 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP)
During a "60 Minutes" interview in 2019, Ocasio-Cortez labeled President Donald Trump "racist."
Later that year, Ocasio-Cortez accused former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of unfairly singling out the freshmen progressive "Squad," calling it an "explicit singling out of newly elected women of color."
She later clarified that she wasn't calling Pelosi racist but maintained that women of color were disproportionately targeted.
But Ocasio-Cortez didn't hold back in her racist allegations when Trump said the "Squad" should "go back" to other countries.
"We don’t leave the things that we love. When we love this country, what that means is we propose the solutions to fix it," she said at a press conference. She later said on social media it was the "hallmark language of white supremacists," warning, "Trump feels comfortable leading the GOP into outright racism."
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks onstage during the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (Getty Images)
Ocasio-Cortez faced pushback from conservatives for claiming "We are one" in her video this week while still designating Americans along racial and ethnic lines in the same video.
Colin Rugg, a conservative influencer and co-owner of Trending Politics, responded, "This has to be a joke.
"You capitalized ‘Black’ and ‘Latino’ but not ‘white.’ You guys were always the ones drumming up the race stuff. Everyone was fine," Matt Antar, finance chair of the New York Young Republicans Club, added on X among the flood of furious replies from conservatives questioning why "white" was lower case in her post.
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Since 2020, AP Style, the standard for American journalism style preferences, has capitalized "Black" to represent the "shared sense of history, identity and community among people who identify as Black." AP Style does not capitalize "white" because white people "generally do not share the same history and culture, or the experience of being discriminated against because of skin color," according to the Associated Press.
Ocasio-Cortez's campaign did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment by deadline.
Deirdre Heavey is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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