U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is confident she would “stomp” Vice President JD Vance in a presidential election, and the left ate it up.
The media predictably ran with the scenario, touting a questionable poll that showed the New York Democrat ahead of the VP in a hypothetical 2028 presidential matchup. Headlines breathlessly reported on the AOC lead over Vance, while articles delved into the results from The Argument/Verasight survey, released on Tuesday.
The poll showed Ocasio-Cortez leading Vance 51% to 49% in the hypothetical 2028 matchup. While the poll comes years early, Ocasio-Cortez was asked about the results, according to a video posted on social media.
AOC to @PabloReports on the recent poll showing her beating Vance. She rolls her eyes at such early polls but adds: “Let the record show, I would stomp him” pic.twitter.com/Mt7tBK3Nze
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) December 18, 2025
Though she scoffed at surveys conducted this far out, she then offered her own prediction for a possible contest between herself and the vice president, whom many see as the likely Republican nominee in 2028.
“Do you think that you could beat JD Vance in a head-to-head race for president, as polling suggests, in 2028?” Pablo Manríquez, the editor of Migrant Insider, asked the far-left congresswoman outside the Capitol on Wednesday.
“Listen, these polls, like three years out, are, you know, they are what they are,” AOC replied. “But let the record show I would stomp him. I would stomp him!”
The two-point gap between the two in the poll results was “within the poll’s 2.7 percentage point margin of error, making the two candidates statistically tied,” Newsweek noted.
LOL!! 👌🏼 pic.twitter.com/31CoOZuyh8
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) December 18, 2025
The survey showed that 57 percent of white voters said they would vote for Vance, while 43 percent chose Ocasio-Cortez.
“But she had a commanding lead among Black voters (79 percent) and Hispanic voters (64 percent),” Newsweek reported.
“There were also gender splits in the polling – 54 percent of men would vote for Vance and 56 percent of women for Ocasio-Cortez,” the outlet noted. “College-educated voters also said they were more likely to vote for Ocasio-Cortez, with 56 percent siding with her and 44 percent with Vance.”
Despite the media’s touting of the poll and AOC’s edge over Vance, social media users had a different take.
Kind of wondering if we ever had press who really knew much of anything.
— Karen Orlando (@KarenFOrlando) December 18, 2025
— Abri (@abriNotMe77) December 18, 2025
No one actually believes this, btw.
— Old Macdonald Farms, CIEIO (@olmcdonaldcieio) December 18, 2025
Not a chance 🤡😂
— 🇺🇸Reed Turner🇺🇸 (@crt39437) December 18, 2025
He will run circles around her
— Zebra12🇺🇲⚡🔥 sic semper tyrannis ☀️Molon Labe (@Zebra12991210) December 18, 2025
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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