Ocasio-Cortez dodges when asked about presidential run

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) dodged a question about a potential bid for the White House on Tuesday when asked about a presidential-like video she recently released that included images from her tour with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

"Listen, it's a video. And frankly, I think what people should be most concerned about is the fact that Republicans are trying to cut Medicaid right now and people’s healthcare is in danger,” Ocasio-Cortez told reporters at Fox News when asked about a presidential bid.

“That's really what my central focus is," she added.

A March poll showed her topping the chart as a Democratic Party leader who bests reflects its "core values."

Ocasio-Cortez has been a fierce critic of the Trump administration’s new policies and strongly pushed back on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for voting to advance the House passed continuing resolution.

“There are members of Congress who have won Trump-held districts in some of the most difficult territory in the United States who walked the plank and took innumerable risks in order to defend the American people, in order to defend Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare,” Ocasio-Cortez said in March.

“Just to see Senate Democrats even consider acquiescing Elon Musk — I think it is a huge slap in the face.”

She’s continued to gain traction with voters in the western portion of the country while on tour and has earned the favor of Sanders, who jokingly referenced her as his daughter. 

“She looked around her, and she saw a society that was fundamentally unjust and, in many ways, ugly to the people in the community in which she lived in New York City,” Sanders said.

“She stood up and took on one of the most powerful people in the House of Representatives, and she started with almost no money against the guy who had unlimited funds, and she beat him,” he added, referring to Ocasio-Cortez's primary victory that launched her congressional career.