Vice President JD Vance has seen enough of the Democratic Party’s radical socialist wave to know where it’s headed.
Vance said that socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will almost certainly be the 2028 Democratic Party nominee.
And Ocasio-Cortez agreed.
The Vice President said flatly during an interview on The Michael Knowles Show Tuesday that Ocasio-Cortez will waltz to victory in the radical 2028 Democratic primary.
“I think it’s got to be AOC,” Vance said. “I know that’s probably conventional wisdom.”
When Knowles argued that California Gov. Gavin Newsom was still the frontrunner, Vance wasn’t having it.
“No, no,” he said. “I don’t buy that. I think he hurt himself with his comment to an audience full of black Americans that I’m low IQ, just like you.”
Vance was referring to a cringe-worthy moment from Newsom’s book tour in Atlanta, where the governor told an audience: “I’m not trying to impress you. I’m just trying to impress upon you. I’m like you. I’m no better than you, you know, I’m a 960 SAT guy … you’ve never seen me read a speech, because I can’t read a speech.”
Vance said AOC sits on top of the new socialist power after the Democratic Party’s radical takeover.
“I guess the question would be, ‘Who do you think really has the power in the Democratic Party?'” Vance said. “And if you think the answer is like Wall Street and the left of center business community, then it would be Ossoff, and if you think it’s the universities, it would be AOC.”
“They’re just so dominated by the crazy people,” Vance said. “It’s like they can’t figure out the part where they get the economic populism, which actually is very popular, and I think Republicans should be more worried about that.”
When asked about running in 2028 herself, Ocasio-Cortez predicted she would beat Vance for the White House.
“I mean, ya know — I hope he is [the Republican nominee],” she said.
AOC has spent months building up for a presidential run. “Could I be president? Could I not be president? Maybe, maybe not,” she told Fox News, and predicted she would “stomp” Vance in a matchup.
“Let the record show: I would stomp him,” she predicted.
There has been a socialist surge in the Democratic primaries all month. Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayor’s race as a declared democratic socialist promising the government could fix every problem, and that America’s “rugged individualism” would be thrown out in favor of “the warm embrace of collectivism.”
Four extremist socialist candidates followed Mamdani and swept congressional primaries in New York and Colorado this week.
“I’m definitely inspired and encouraged by all the new faces that we’re going to be sending to the states and to Congress next year,” Ocasio-Cortez told Fox News about the surge of radical leftists in the party.
Vance had one warning for Republicans. Even with the Democrats’ hard-left lurch, he said Republicans shouldn’t get comfortable. It’s the woke universities driving the Democratic Party now. And in Vance’s view, that road ends in 2028 with AOC at the top of the ticket.
She isn’t disagreeing.