Vice President JD Vance said he thinks Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) will be the leading Democratic candidate for the 2028 presidential election. “I think it’s got to be AOC. I know that’s probably conventional wisdom,” Vance said during an interview on “The Michael Knowles Show.” Vance said that he thought she'd be the leading candidate for the Democratic Party. Here's what to know. https://t.co/DW6VRD4mCR — USA TODAY (@USATODAY) July 1, 2026 More from the New York Post: The 36-year-old currently ranks fourth in the RealClearPolitics primary polling aggregate with 11% support, behind former Vice President Kamala Harris (27%), California Gov. Gavin Newsom (17%), and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg at (13%)%. Later in the interview, Vance dismissed host Michael Knowles’ suggestion that Newsom was the favorite to be the Democratic standard-bearer. “No, no, I don’t buy that. I think he hurt himself with his comment to an audience full of black Americans that ‘I’m low IQ, just like you,’” Vance mused. “Sort of bad in a couple of different ways.” In February, Newsom was holding a conversation with Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens about his struggle with dyslexia. “I’m not trying to impress you. I’m just trying to impress upon you. I’m like you. I’m no better than you, you know, I’m a 960 SAT guy,” Newsom said at the time. “You’ve never seen me read a speech, because I can’t read a speech.” Newsom’s press team described the firestorm over those comments as “MAGA-manufactured outrage.” In response, AOC said she hopes Vance is the GOP presidential nominee. “I hope he is. That’s what I’ll say,” she said. Watch below: Reporter: JD Vance just said in an interview that he thinks you are going to be the leading Democratic candidate for president in 2028. What’s your response to that? AOC: pic.twitter.com/s5qodMBiN1 — Acyn (@Acyn) June 30, 2026 CNN shared further: Pressed on whether he believed Ocasio-Cortez would be the leading 2028 candidate over someone like Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff, Vance said it will depend on where the power is held in the party. Ossoff has generated some buzz as a possible presidential contender, though he has a more immediate challenge of holding onto his Senate seat in the midterms. “I guess the question would be, ‘Who do you think really has the power in the Democratic Party?’ And if you think the answer is like Wall Street and the left of center business community, then it would be Ossoff, and if you think it’s the universities, it would be AOC,” he said. Vance argued that the Democrats are “just so dominated by the crazy people.” “It’s like they can’t figure out the part where they get the economic populism, which actually is very popular, and I think Republicans should be more worried about that,” he said. The post Vice President JD Vance Predicts 2028 Democrat Presidential Nominee appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.