Dem Pollster Dumps On AOC As Party’s 2028 Nominee: ‘She’ll Win One State’
Charlie Kirk Staff
04/19/2025

A Democrat pollster has issued a warning to his party about nominating New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for president.
Mark Penn, a veteran Democrat strategist, warned his party during an appearance on Fox News where he spoke to guest host Kellyanne Conway, that the New York representative would win one state.
“So Mark Penn, the ace pollster, break it all down for us. Do people want that young, fresh blood, a little bit socialist? Are they going to go back to someone like Kamala Harris and think if she had more time?” the host said.
“Are we missing the point here altogether? Are there governors or Stephen A. Smith? And by the way, what are the attributes that the Democratic Party is looking for? Is it the economy? Is it immigration? Is it social justice? Is it climate? What’s going on? Tell us about the polls in your party,” she said.
“Well, you know that in a situation like this where the party essentially has none of the branches of government and lost an election significantly and handily, that there is no leader of the party. And AOC is trying to fill that vacuum. Bernie Sanders, frankly, he could get, as we’ve seen, 30, 40 percent of a Democratic primary,” the pollster said.
“So if she’s going to have a significant base, he’s clearly passing the torch to her. And there is a strong left-wing base in the Democratic Party. Remember, Democrats got one state in 1972, and they got one state in 1984,” he said.
“So the Democratic Party has been in the wilderness multiple times when it goes too far to the left. And so the possibility of that is real. I think in terms of Harris, no way she is going to come back in a presidential race, no way that she would ever win a presidential primary,” the Democrat said.
“But Adam Schiff is a senator, believe it or not, from California, after his completely disreputable record in the Senate. And so I don’t think it’s far-fetched that she might wind up governor of California, because California does not seem to kind of wake up to the nightmare that its elected officials have put itself in, as a state that’s losing population, has an incredible erosion of its tax base as a fiscal situation, a crime situation, a transportation situation. So I don’t know what’s going to happen in the long term,” the pollster said.
“California seems to be solidly in the Democratic camp. So she could come back as governor. She’s not going to be the presidential candidate. I don’t think AOC is going to be the nominee of the party. If it is, I think it will be back to one state,” he said.