2026-09-22T15:37:06.327Z / CNN
作者：格洛丽亚·帕兹米诺
26分钟前
发布于 2026年9月22日，美国东部时间上午11:37
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纽约——
纽约州众议员亚历山德里亚·奥卡西奥-科特兹给自己设定了一个决策期限。
这位36岁的民主党进步派新兴领袖将在即将到来的中期选举后，决定是否参加2028年总统竞选。
在接受《纽约时报》的深度专访时，奥卡西奥-科特兹表示，她正在权衡性别、族裔和年龄等诸多因素。她也清楚意识到，美国从未有女性当选总统，而这一决定可能会改变她的个人生活。
“坦率地说，我会思考自己的身份认同，”奥卡西奥-科特兹告诉《纽约时报》，“我清楚地知道，我们正生活在一个非常倒退的政府治下，而我恰好是一名女性，我也恰好是拉丁裔。我认为围绕‘ electability（当选可能性）’有很多讨论，我不会回避这些现实。”
奥卡西奥-科特兹的发言人拒绝向CNN提供更多关于她未来计划的细节，此前她正在权衡自己的下一个政治举措，这一话题引发了大量猜测。
奥卡西奥-科特兹在布朗克斯出生，父母是波多黎各人，在参选国会议员前曾做过酒保。她告诉《纽约时报》，她在一定程度上正在考虑这项重大决定会如何影响她的个人生活。
她经常在社交媒体上分享自己的生活，最近一次是在她接受卵子冷冻生育治疗时，向粉丝更新了全过程，还透露自己从政前就开始的长期恋情也已结束。
她的帖子在网上引发了广泛关注，既催生了关于性别和女性职业发展的讨论，也招致了一些批评。
奥卡西奥-科特兹在2018年初选中击败连任十届的现任众议员乔·克劳利，从此政治声名鹊起、全国知名。她不仅在考虑竞选总统。
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这位已连任四届的国会议员可以选择寻求连任，继续代表布朗克斯和皇后区的部分选区——她在当地仍颇具人气。她也可以选择竞选参议员席位，该席位目前由查克·舒默占据，舒默将于11月年满76岁，并将在2028年寻求连任。
她还在自己的家乡州投入时间，其竞选团队向CNN证实，她已从竞选账户中捐赠30万美元，用于帮助该州的民主党候选人，并表示她将在全州范围内开展活动，助力中期选举的投票率提升。从本周末开始，她计划在布法罗、锡拉丘兹和伊萨卡进行竞选停留——这些城市距离她在皇后区和布朗克斯的选区较远，但也聚集了不少进步派选民。
作为美国国会有史以来当选的最年轻女性，奥卡西奥-科特兹目前表示，在考虑未来规划时，种族和性别是她首要考量的因素，并承认在美式政治中，公开谈论这两个议题可能不受欢迎。
她表示，自己能共情两位民主党女性总统候选人希拉里·克林顿和卡玛拉·哈里斯失利后人们所感受到的“心碎”，以及她们在失利后所遭受的对待。
“我们的政治文化非常奇怪的一点是，当你提出这一点时，人们就会抓狂，”奥卡西奥-科特兹告诉《纽约时报》，“仅仅是暗示性别可能会产生影响，他们就会变得十分戒备。”
谈及自己的下一个政治举措，奥卡西奥-科特兹承认时机至关重要。
“有人认为，这是一个非常独特的政治窗口，而在政治中，你往往只有一次机会，”奥卡西奥-科特兹说，“而且不只是在政治领域，人生也是如此——人生不会等你准备好。有时候，反而是人生替你做好了准备。”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questions whether a Latina can be elected president
2026-09-22T15:37:06.327Z / CNN
By Gloria Pazmino
26 min ago
PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2026, 11:37 AM ET
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attends a news conference to announce the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act in the US Capitol on March 25.
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New York—
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is giving herself a deadline.
The 36-year-old ascendant leader of the Democratic Party’s progressive movement will decide whether to run for president in 2028 after the upcoming midterm elections.
In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, Ocasio-Cortez said she is weighing everything from gender to ethnicity and her age. She’s also cognizant that no woman has been elected president and that the decision could shape her personal life.
“Pretty candidly, I think about my identity,” Ocasio-Cortez told the Times. “I’m not naïve to the fact that we are living under a very regressive administration, and I happen to be a woman, and I, you know, happen to be Latina. And I think that there’s a lot of conversation about electability, and I don’t kind of shy away from those realities.”
A spokesperson for Ocasio-Cortez declined to provide additional information to CNN about her future plans, which have been the subject of much speculation as she weighs her next political move.
Ocasio-Cortez, who was born to Puerto Rican parents in the Bronx and worked as a bartender before running for Congress, is in part considering how such a monumental decision could shape her personal life, she told the Times.
She has often shared about her life on social media, most recently bringing her followers along as she underwent fertility treatment to freeze her eggs, revealing that her long-term relationship since before she’d been in office had also come to an end.
Her posts generated significant interest online, igniting both conversations about gender and women’s careers as well as drawing some criticism.
Ocasio-Cortez, who rose to political stardom and national prominence after ousting 10-term incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley in a 2018 primary, isn’t only considering a presidential run.
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The four-term congresswoman could run for reelection and continue representing parts of the Bronx and Queens as she remains popular at home. She could also choose to run for the Senate seat currently held by Chuck Schumer, who turns 76 in November and who is up for reelection in 2028.
She is also spending time in her home state and has donated $300,000 from her campaign account to help Democrats there, her campaign confirmed to CNN, adding she would be traveling across the state to help boost turnout in the midterms. Starting this weekend, she is planning campaign stops in Buffalo, Syracuse and Ithaca — cities far from her home district in Queens and the Bronx that are also home to pockets of progressive voters.
For now, as the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, Ocasio-Cortez said race and gender are top of mind as she considers her future and acknowledged that publicly speaking about both issues can be unpopular in American politics.
She said she empathizes with the “heartbreak” people feel around the losses of the two female Democratic presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris and how they were treated in the aftermath.
“What is very odd about our political culture is that for some reason when you raise it, people just freak out,” Ocasio-Cortez told the Times. “They get so defensive at the mere suggestion that gender could play a role.”
Of her political next move, Ocasio-Cortez acknowledged timing is of the essence.
“There’s an argument that some make that this is a very unique political window and, oftentimes in politics, you do only get one shot,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “And you don’t — and just in life in general — life doesn’t wait for you to be ready for things. Sometimes life just makes things ready for you.”
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