“Presidents come and go, Senate, House seats, elected officials, come and go, but single-payer healthcare is forever," Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) dismissed a question of whether or not she’ll run for president in 2028 on Friday night, stating that her “ambition is way bigger.” “My ambition is to change this country,” Ocasio-Cortez told Democratic strategist David Axelrod during a conversation hosted by the University of Chicago’s Institute of