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He may be AOK with AOC.<\/p>\n

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is enough of a political animal that he might end up backing socialist \u201cSquad\u201d star Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez if, fueled by the success of far-left radicals in Tuesday\u2019s primaries, she decides to run for president, insiders said.<\/p>\n

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That comes after a career of pragmatic legislating \u2014 even penning a 2007 book about winning back a middle-class majority.<\/p>\n

\u201cSchumer\u2019s a smart enough person where if it is that time [for an AOC White House run], he would probably be one of her biggest champions,\u201d said a longtime New York Democratic operative.<\/p>\n

The 75-year-old Schumer has hitched his wagon to local left-wingers before and outlasted former rival Hillary Clinton, who he endorsed for president back in 2013, declaring 2016 to be \u201cHillary\u2019s time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRun, Hillary, run!\u201d he then urged the former first lady.<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez (D-Queens, Bronx), 36, has backed off targeting fellow House Democratic incumbents, and in 2024 she began paying $260,000 in yearly dues to the party\u2019s campaign fundraising arm \u2014 a nod to the establishment Dems running the show.<\/p>\n

However, the socialist firebrand and her fellow comrades are gaining momentum trying to move Dems\u2019 far-left base from fringe to mainstream \u2014 including Tuesday\u2019s primary victories by three far-left House candidates backed by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe went from being an outsider to being an insider,\u201d said the operative.<\/p>\n

Kamala Harris invited Ocasio-Cortez to speak at the Democratic National Convention in 2024, where AOC vouched that the party\u2019s presidential nominee was \u201cworking tirelessly to secure a cease-fire in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n

The move brought a rebuke last week from Democratic Socialist of America honcho Kareem Elrafai in The Nation, who demanded Ocasio-Cortez apologize for telling a \u201clie\u201d to the public by claiming the \u201cvery people perpetrating a genocide were actually \u2018working tirelessly\u2019 to stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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One establishment Democratic aide insisted that after years of conversations, AOC has \u201creal respect for, and perhaps even, an affinity for Schumer.\u201d <\/p>\n

That could be the basis of an unexpected accommodation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is willing to listen to her, and that matters to her,\u201d the aide said.<\/p>\n

AOC was coy this week when asked about running for Senate, telling a Fox News reporter \u201cI\u2019m not going to be breaking any news here.\u201d<\/p>\n

After serving 45 years in Congress \u2013 including the last 27 years in the Senate \u2013 Schumer\u2019s clout and time on Capitol Hill is running out, predicted a Republican operative working midterm campaigns nationwide.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf Schumer somehow survives Democrats\u2019 2026 socialist takeover, AOC\u2019s 2028 challenge will finish the job and send him into retirement,\u201d the source predicted.<\/p>\n

Schumer declined to address his political future or a potential Ocasio-Cortez presidential run, but he insisted Dems would rally together to take back Capitol Hill and the White House.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to look at the entire country,\u201d he said in a statement to The Post. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe have centrists making real gains in New Jersey, Iowa, and Virginia, and progressive energy here in New York City. At the end of the day, my sole focus is one thing: taking back the Senate and reversing the damage Donald Trump has done to the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

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