Is AOC eligible to be president or vice president in 2020 or 2024?
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY., has emerged as a rising progressive leader during her first term as a congresswoman. Because of her popularity, she's been touted as a possible candidate for president or vice president. Here's when Ocasio-Cortez will be eligible for those higher offices.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has been floated as a possible presidential or vice presidential candidate -- but is the rising progressive star too young for those top positions?
Section 1 of Article Two of the U.S. Constitution establishes the eligibility requirements for the presidency: 'No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.'
And, the 12th Amendment to the Constitution sets the requirements for the vice presidency: '...[N]o person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.'
Ocasio-Cortez was born on October 13, 1989, meaning she would not be 35 years old by Inauguration Day on January 20, 2021. Therefore, even though she is a natural-born citizen and a long-term U.S. resident, Ocasio-Cortez is ineligible to be either the president or vice president in the 2020 campaign cycle. AOC would also be ineligible to fill these posts at any time during the next administration.
However, Ocasio-Cortez would be eligible to serve as president or vice president in the 2024 campaign cycle, narrowly making the age cutoff. She will have turned 35 by Inauguration Day on January 20, 2025.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has been floated as a possible presidential contender. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
The only possible constitutional exceptions that could barr AOC from the high offices would occur in rather extreme circumstances -- including if AOC were ever somehow impeached or disqualified by the U.S. Senate, or found to have rebelled against the United States.
In the meantime, Ocasio-Cortez, who endorsed Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential bid, has kept up her high profile as a first-term congresswoman with an urgent and unique agenda.
'One thing that I am concerned about ... is in our climate,' Ocasio-Cortez said as Joe Biden cemented his frontrunner status in the 2020 race. 'I'm legitimately concerned about what this means for carbon emissions... There are many many issues where peoples' lives are on the line. But the scale and the feedback and the irreversible nature of climate change is something that we all really need to pay close attention to.'
And top progressives, who have watched as Ocasio-Cortez has repeatedly taken on Democratic congressional leaders, say she isn't going anywhere.
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a leader in the progressive movement,” longtime Bernie Sanders adviser Jeff Weaver told Politico last year. “She is broadly popular, frankly, among Democratic voters. She is particularly strong with young voters, voters of color.'
Fox News' Tyler Olson contributed to this report.
Progressive lawmaker Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) remains skeptical over former Vice President Joe Biden’s current cabinet picks, telling reporters Wednesday that the overall agenda remains “a little hazy.”
“I think it’d be great to see a more cohesive vision across the entire Cabinet. You have an individual appointment here, an individual appointment there,” Ocasio-Cortez told reporters in the Capitol on Wednesday, according to Politico.
“We can wrestle about whether they are bold enough or ambitious enough, especially given the uncertainty and what kind of Senate we’re going to have,” she continued, noting that the choices leave her with questions.
“I think one of the things I’m looking for, when I see all of these picks together is: What is the agenda? What is the overall vision going to be? I think that’s a little hazy,” the far-left “Squad” member said, adding that she is “trying to read into it” to find the “overall message” in the cabinet.
“And what is the agenda for it, because we have a person who has a more conservative history, that’s one thing, but what is the mission that they are being given in their individual agency, whether it’s Transportation, Defense, OMB, etc.? What is the mandate here?” she asked.
“And, yeah, I just think that’s something that we’re looking to see is, it’s something that I hope will be pushed,” she added.
Former Obama senior advisor David Axelrod has praised Biden’s picks, contending that the former vice president is following through with creating “the most diverse cabinet in history”:
“Look, Biden is following through on the pledge that he made as a candidate. He promised the most diverse cabinet in history — he’s delivering that,” he said during a November appearance on CNN Newsroom before listing examples:
Janet Yellen, the first [female] treasury secretary of the United States in the history of the republic. You know, Avril Haines over as the DNI, that’s historic as well. But I think we shouldn’t lose in Mayorkas, the new DHS secretary, we should point out, is a Cuban-American immigrant, also historic and symbolically important. But we shouldn’t lose in the historic nature of these picks the fact that as a group they’re very coherent, they reflect Biden’s governing philosophy, and they are manifestly experienced and competent. And in that sense, distinct from some of the appointments that we’ve seen under the current administration.
Ocasio-Cortez predicted in September that the far-left would be able to push Biden in a “more progressive direction” across various policy issues.
“There are some areas where we just fundamentally disagree, but that’s okay. I think it’s important to acknowledge that we can have, in some cases, very large disagreements — it doesn’t mean that we’re trying to undermine the party or undermine each other,” she said, adding that it “means that we’re trying to do what’s best for people in the country.”
In late-October, just days before the presidential election, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) echoed those same sentiments in a virtual meeting with the far-left members of the “Squad.”
“But we understand that electing Biden is not the end-all. It is the beginning,” the Vermont senator said, stressing that progressives are “not giving up” on their agenda.
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Democrats are poised to hold the slimmest Democratic Party majority in the House in over a century following Biden reportedly selecting Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH) to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).