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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
AOC viewed positively by more Americans than Trump or Harris, poll finds
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is more well-liked than President Donald Trump, former President Joe Biden, and former Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a new poll. Despite the fact that Ocasio-Cortez can be polarizing even within her own party, she is still more popular than most currently active U.S. politicians, Newsweek reports. Data released on Friday by data intelligence company AtlasIntel found that Ocasio-Cortez ranked third most popular on its survey of political popularity, and she was one of only three leaders with a net positive image. The congresswoman was beat only by former President Barack Obama and his wife, former First Lady Michelle Obama. Ocasio-Cortez had a positivity rating of 46 percent, with 44 percent of respondents saying they have a negative view of her, and another 10 percent saying they were unsure. That left her with a net positivity rating of two points, according to the poll. Barack Oabama was viewed positively by 53 percent of respondents compared to the 43 percent who view him negatively, and Michelle Obama was viewed in a positive light by 49 percent of respondents and negatively by 45 percent. The Obamas may benefit somewhat from the fact that neither of them are in any official leadership role in the government at the moment. Ocasio-Cortez, however, is, an active and vocal member of Congress. Since Trump's re-election and the unique threats of DOGE, Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders have been touring to "rally against oligarchy." Their events have drawn massive crowds in cities across the country. The poll included responses from 3,469 participants and had a margin of error of plus or minus.2 percentage points with a 95 percent confidence level. The survey that served as the foundation for the results was conducted between May 21, 2025 and May 27, 2025. Ocasio-Cortez has been quiet about her further political aspirations, but has been urged by some supporters to consider a 2028 presidential run. During an interview with Fox News in April, Ocasio-Cortex refused to speculate and said she wanted to focus on current issues. "This moment isn't about campaigns, or elections, or about politics. It's about making sure people are protected, and we've got people that are getting locked up for exercising their First Amendment rights," she said at the time. "We're getting 2-year-olds that are getting deported into cells in Honduras. We're getting people that are about to get kicked off of Medicaid. That, to me, is most important." Monica Crowley, a former Treasury Department official during the first Trump administration, told Fox News in November that GOP politicos would do well to not underestimate Ocasio-Cortez. "Just a word of warning to the Republicans, to my party: Do not underestimate AOC. She's young, she's vibrant, she's attractive," Crowley said.
The Independent
3 days ago
- Business
- The Independent
AOC viewed positively by more Americans than Trump or Harris, poll finds
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is more well-liked than President Donald Trump, former President Joe Biden, and former Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a new poll. Despite the fact that Ocasio-Cortez can be polarizing even within her own party, she is still more popular than most currently active U.S. politicians, Newsweek reports. Data released on Friday by data intelligence company AtlasIntel found that Ocasio-Cortez ranked third most popular on its survey of political popularity, and she was one of only three leaders with a net positive image. The congresswoman was beat only by former President Barack Obama and his wife, former First Lady Michelle Obama. Ocasio-Cortez had a positivity rating of 46 percent, with 44 percent of respondents saying they have a negative view of her, and another 10 percent saying they were unsure. That left her with a net positivity rating of two points, according to the poll. Barack Oabama was viewed positively by 53 percent of respondents compared to the 43 percent who view him negatively, and Michelle Obama was viewed in a positive light by 49 percent of respondents and negatively by 45 percent. The Obamas may benefit somewhat from the fact that neither of them are in any official leadership role in the government at the moment. Ocasio-Cortez, however, is, an active and vocal member of Congress. Since Trump's re-election and the unique threats of DOGE, Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders have been touring to "rally against oligarchy." Their events have drawn massive crowds in cities across the country. The poll included responses from 3,469 participants and had a margin of error of plus or minus.2 percentage points with a 95 percent confidence level. The survey that served as the foundation for the results was conducted between May 21, 2025 and May 27, 2025. Ocasio-Cortez has been quiet about her further political aspirations, but has been urged by some supporters to consider a 2028 presidential run. During an interview with Fox News in April, Ocasio-Cortex refused to speculate and said she wanted to focus on current issues. "This moment isn't about campaigns, or elections, or about politics. It's about making sure people are protected, and we've got people that are getting locked up for exercising their First Amendment rights," she said at the time. "We're getting 2-year-olds that are getting deported into cells in Honduras. We're getting people that are about to get kicked off of Medicaid. That, to me, is most important." Monica Crowley, a former Treasury Department official during the first Trump administration, told Fox News in November that GOP politicos would do well to not underestimate Ocasio-Cortez. "Just a word of warning to the Republicans, to my party: Do not underestimate AOC. She's young, she's vibrant, she's attractive," Crowley said.
Fox News
28-05-2025
- Business
- Fox News
Fox News Politics Newsletter: AOC Thaws Out 'Abolish ICE' Pitch to Fire Up Fundraising
Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest updates on the Trump administration, Capitol Hill and more Fox News politics content. Here's what's happening… -Jeanine Pirro sworn in as DC's interim US Attorney, pledging 'no more mercy for criminals' -White House sending $9.4 billion DOGE cuts package to Congress next week -Federal judge refuses to reconsider order to facilitate deportee's return to US Republicans are ripping progressive New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for renewing her call to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a recent fundraising email. "I believe that ICE, an agency that was just formed in 2003 during the Patriot Act era, is a rogue agency that should not exist," Ocasio-Cortez said in a fundraising email obtained by Fox News Digital. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), House Republicans' campaign arm, criticized the potential 2028 presidential candidate in an X post for fundraising on wanting to abolish ICE, a progressive rallying cry that rejects President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration…READ MORE TRUMP CHECKS BIBI: Trump confirms he told Netanyahu to back off Iran strikes amid nuclear talks LAWFARE CONTINUES: Obama-nominated judge allows lawsuit targeting Musk's role with DOGE to proceed, drops claims against Trump 'INTENSELY LOYAL': 'Intensely loyal' Jill Biden aide despised by White House staffers, new book claims 'NO EVIDENCE': Watchdog finds 'no evidence' Biden knew of crucial climate EOs, demands answers on who signed autopen ELIMINATED: Netanyahu says Israel has killed Hamas' Gaza chief Mohammed Sinwar EXECUTION IN IRAN: Iran hangs a man convicted of spying for Israel 'DOES NOT UNDERSTAND': Russia says 'Trump is not being sufficiently informed' after calling Putin 'absolutely CRAZY' FIRST ON FOX: Rubio urged to punish Iraq with 'maximum pressure' sanctions for its 'complete subjugation' by Iran NEPOTISM IN ACTION: Longtime Democrat senator's daughter takes aim at Trump, Musk, RFK Jr, in launch for key House swing seat BURGERS AND BARBS: Senate Republican campaign committee 'grills' Chuck Schumer on National Hamburger Day DOCTOR'S ORDERS: A new law in this state bans automated insurance claim denials TERROR AT THE BORDER: DHS video honors Marine killed by Mexican cartel, touts Trump's crackdown on 'terrorists' US STRIKES BACK: Rubio announces visa restrictions for foreign authorities 'complicit' in censoring Americans' free speech ILLEGAL MIGRANT: Texas border sheriff says illegal crossings have seen 'dramatic decline' as CA migrant center shuts down DESANTIS ON DOGE: DeSantis goads Congress to follow FL's DOGE blueprint as Musk's cuts still wait for vote 'INACCURATE' VOTER LISTS: DOJ sues North Carolina over voter rolls BULLET POINTS REPEALED: Defense Department workers no longer required to submit DOGE's weekly production reports Get the latest updates on the Trump administration and Congress, exclusive interviews and more on
Fox News
28-05-2025
- Business
- Fox News
AOC fundraises on trying to abolish ICE amid Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration
Republicans are ripping progressive New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for renewing her call to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a recent fundraising email. "I believe that ICE, an agency that was just formed in 2003 during the Patriot Act era, is a rogue agency that should not exist," Ocasio-Cortez said in a fundraising email obtained by Fox News Digital. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), House Republicans' campaign arm, criticized the potential 2028 presidential candidate in an X post for fundraising on wanting to abolish ICE, a progressive rallying cry that rejects President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration. "House Democrat Minority Leader AOC is doubling down on their party's most extreme, unhinged agenda, while the rest of her party is bending their knee to the radical wing. At this rate, the Democrat platform in 2026 will be a fever dream of defunding the police, wide open borders, and far-left hellscapes," NRCC Spokesman Mike Marinella told Fox News Digital in a statement. "Why are you considered to be extreme?" Ocasio-Cortez asked in the fundraising email. It's a strategy often deployed by the progressive New Yorker, according to a Fox News Digital review of Ocasio-Cortez's campaign emails. Ocasio-Cortez says she is considered "extreme" because she supports Medicare for All, champions the Green New Deal, challenges Democratic Party leadership, believes in "democratic socialism," is funded by small-dollar donations and believes ICE should "not exist." The potential 2028 candidate was at the forefront of the "abolish ICE" movement, a rejection of Trump's immigration policies in his first administration, during her 2018 congressional campaign when she unseated longtime Democrat incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley. While older, moderate Democrats haven't been as vocal about abolishing ICE, another young progressive, who has faced heat within his party for a plan to primary challenge older Democratic incumbents in safe blue districts who are "asleep at the wheel," DNC vice chair David Hogg, has also called to "abolish ICE." "We must acknowledge the terrifying moment that we are in right now, and that what we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching as our neighbors, students and friends are being fired, targeted and disappeared. It is real. People we love are being targeted and harassed for being LGBTQ. Our co-workers, U.S. citizens and immigrants alike are being disappeared off the street by men in vans with no uniform," Ocasio-Cortez told a crowd in Montana on Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Fighting Oligarchy" Tour. Ocasio-Cortez has an ongoing feud with Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, as the New York congresswoman instructs her constituents how to impede ICE arrests. Ocasio-Cortez is facing a potential Department of Justice probe for a webinar she hosted in February on how to handle ICE agents. The Trump administration has led a robust crackdown on illegal immigration since returning to the White House this year. During the first 100 days of Trump's second term, ICE arrested 66,463 illegal immigrants and removed 65,682, according to ICE. The agency said three in four of those arrests of illegal immigrants involved someone accused of committing a crime. The Fox News Voter Analysis in 2024 found that 52% of voters said Trump was the better candidate to handle immigration, while just 36% said Harris. Additionally, it was a top issue for voters, with 20% saying it was the most important issue facing the country. Ocasio-Cortez, Homan, DHS and the DCCC did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment.
New York Times
22-05-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Biden's Cancer and a Lawmaker's Death Keep Focus on Democrats' Age Problem
In the last three months alone, three Democratic House members have died in office, former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced a serious cancer diagnosis and a new book stoked fresh scrutiny of his declining abilities while serving as commander in chief. For a party struggling with a litany of problems, perhaps no subject in recent years has been more painful, delicate or politically perilous than the matter of age — an issue that keeps rearing its head in 2025 as party leaders now acknowledge the problem but remain hesitant to directly call out aging colleagues. The subject arose yet again on Wednesday, as the family of Representative Gerald E. Connolly, a Democrat from Virginia, announced that he had died at 75. He was the sixth House Democrat to die in office in the last year or so, according to what the House press gallery calls its 'casualty list' of deaths, resignations and retirements. Just a few months ago, Mr. Connolly beat out one of the youngest members of Congress, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, 35, in an internal contest to lead their party on the House Oversight Committee. He said at the time that the idea that there was generational change underway in the caucus was a 'false narrative.' His death, after a public battle with esophageal cancer, prompted an outpouring of grief from colleagues. But as Democrats strain to project energy in fighting President Trump, some in the party also saw it as another harsh reminder of the risks the party faces when it prizes seniority and loyalty above all else. Former Representative Joe Cunningham, 42, a South Carolina Democrat, supports age and term limits for political office and publicly urged Mr. Biden not to seek re-election. In an interview, he spoke warmly about Mr. Connolly. But, he said, emphasizing that he was speaking more broadly, 'a lot of these elected officials should have another escape hatch from politics other than death.' 'You can take a look at folks who are up there, who've been up there for 30, 40, 50 years, and say, 'Look, it's probably best time that you move on and create a bit of a room for some new leadership,'' he said. 'Considering where the Democratic Party is now, I think it's a big problem.' He cited the deaths of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, and alluded to Mr. Biden's decision to seek a second term, which he would have concluded at the age of 86. Polling long showed that voters, including many Democrats, had grave worries about Mr. Biden's age and believed he was too old to seek re-election. But party leaders defended him and went to great lengths to emphasize his vigor. They changed course only after a disastrous debate roughly four months before Election Day, when it was too late for a robust and competitive primary campaign. All of those issues are being re-litigated now with the release of the book 'Original Sin' by Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios, which aims to illuminate how Mr. Biden's advisers shut down discussion of his age-related limitations. 'All of that hammers home how important it is to have this conversation in public, even when it's messy, even when it's walking over land mines, even when it can feel painful, because we can't assume that it's happening in private,' said Amanda Litman, who leads Run for Something, a progressive group that recruits younger Democrats to seek local office. 'We can't assume that the individual elected is going to know when it's their time.' She praised several older Democrats who have decided to retire on their own terms. 'They are being patriots, and when they do move on, they open up the floodgates for new leaders up and down the ballot,' she said. 'The ones that are refusing are being primaried, and those primaries are going to be personal. Like, it's not going to be a fun primary that they're going to romp to victory on.' Mr. Connolly, for his part, had said late last month that he would not seek re-election and would step aside from his leadership position on the Oversight Committee. In a statement, Mr. Connolly's family emphasized a long list of his accomplishments during his decades in public service. 'We were fortunate to share Gerry with Northern Virginia for nearly 40 years because that was his joy, his purpose and his passion,' the statement said. 'We are proud that his life's work will endure for future generations.' While voters and pundits often express enthusiasm for term limits or age limits, a common practice in the corporate world, many politicians on both sides of the aisle continue to recoil from the idea, stressing instead the value of experience. And concerns about age are nothing new in Congress, where Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a Republican and for decades an avowed segregationist, stoked questions about his health and abilities toward the end of his nearly half-century in office. (He died at age 100 and was eulogized by Mr. Biden.) More recently, Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, has had several health scares. He stepped down as his party's leader and plans to retire. Mr. Trump will be 79 next month and has faced his own questions about age. Some next-generation Democrats are already thinking about the next presidential primary race, which is expected to be a raucous and crowded contest featuring a long list of younger party leaders. But first, the party owes voters a transparent conversation about age, suggested Mr. Cunningham, whose state is likely to be influential in deciding Democrats' 2028 nominee. 'Now, even, some people say it's not a good time to speak out, but this is a family meeting that needs to occur,' he said. 'The party has to go through some form of counseling or something. You know? Like, these areas have to be acknowledged, and there has to be some honest conversations.'
