Ocasio-Cortez turns heads with answer to Axelrod about White House run

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When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) sat down with Democratic strategist David Axelrod at a Chicago event last week, she didn't close the door on a White House bid. Ocasio-Cortez pushed back on the idea that her political aspirations are “positional,” telling Axelrod that people “assume my am