In an interview with Punchbowl News posted Monday morning, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez refused to rule out a 2022 run against current Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Asked whether she would consider challenging Sen. Schumer, Ocasio-Cortez avoided a direct answer. “I’m a no bullshit kind of person. I’m not playing coy or anything like that,” she told John Bresnahan. She did, however, clarify that she was keeping her options on the table.

“I’m still very much in a place where I’m trying to decide what is the most effective thing I can do to help our Congress, our [political] process, and our country actually address the issues of climate change, health care, wage inequality, etc.,” she told the outlet.

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Pressed as to whether she believed Schumer was doing a good job, Ocasio-Cortez again demurred, turning the focus on President Trump and the current Senate Majority Leader. “It’s a hard thing to say, too. We’ve had to deal with a fascist president and Mitch McConnell,” she said.

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In an interview with Vanity Fair in December, the progressive left’s darling offered similar sentiments:

I don’t know if I’m really going to be staying in the House forever, or if I do stay in the House, what that would look like. I don’t see myself really staying where I’m at for the rest of my life. I don’t want to aspire to a quote-unquote higher position just for the sake of that title or just for the sake of having a different or higher position.

Ocasio-Cortez has historically not been shy in criticizing her party’s leadership. In November, she blamed Democrat incompetence for the election losses. She told the Times:

There’s a reason Barack Obama built an entire national campaign apparatus outside of the Democratic National Committee. There’s a reason that, when he didn’t activate or continue that, we lost House majorities. Slots games 999. Because the party — in and of itself — does not have the core competencies, and no amount of money is going to fix that.

On December 20, the congresswoman spoke to The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill. On Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, she said: “Well, you know, I do think that we need new leadership in the Democratic Party.” Asked whether she is ready to say, “Pelosi and Schumer need to go,” Ocasio-Cortez responded, “I mean, I think so.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the overwhelming favorite in her reelection race in New York's 14th Congressional district.
Her Republican opponent, John Cummings has still raised $9.6 million — seemingly a sign of how keen conservatives are to challenge her.
'I guarantee you 75% of his contributors don't know anything about him,' a Republican strategist told The New York Times.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is widely expected to win reelection next month as the US Representative for New York's 14th district.

Her Republican challenger, John Cummings, has still managed to raise $9.6 million, in a sign of how desperate her critics are to beat her, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

'I guarantee you 75% of his contributors don't know anything about him,' Tom Doherty, a Republican strategist, told the newspaper of Cummings, a former Bronx schoolteacher and police officer.

'The people that are interested in that race financially are giving because it's AOC,' he said.

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Ocasio-Cortez, who has raised $17.3 million so far, champions progressive policies such as public healthcare, tuition-free public college, the abolition of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the rollout of a Green New Deal that would transform the US economy to combat climate change and protect the environment.

The lawmaker's bold proposals have polarized Americans, winning her passionate support among liberals and making her a popular target for conservatives.

The result is that more money has poured into backing her and her opponents than in any House of Representatives race in the country bar one, The New York Times said.

More then $30 million has flowed into the campaign, most of it going to Ocasio-Cortez and Cummings.

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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, a former CNBC anchor who lost to Ocasio-Cortez in the Democratic primary, has also raised $2.4 million and loaned $1 million to her campaign in order to run against Ocasio-Cortez again as the candidate for the Serve America Movement.

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Cummings' campaign staff knew they could capitalize on Ocasio-Cortez's public profile to raise money from across the country.

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'I just sensed that national fund-raising against someone like AOC would be successful,' Chapin Fay, Cummings' campaign manager, told The New York Times.