Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has led a poll to be the Democratic Party’s nominee in the 2028 presidential race, and analysts are saying it’s proof that the party is breaking with its past.
Ocasio-Cortez began her political career in 2017 while waiting tables and bartending at a New York taqueria, and made shockwaves in the city when her grassroots campaign unseated establishment fixture Joe Crowley.