Trump twice encourages Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to challenge Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer as rumors swirl – The Sun

PRESIDENT Trump suggested multiple times on Friday that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should challenge "overrated loser" Chuck Schumer for his Senate seat.

Trump wrote in a series of tweets that Schumer would be vulnerable if the congresswoman ran against him.

The president then made a bold prediction while speaking on Dan Bongino's podcast.

“I think AOC’s gonna kill him when she runs against him in the primaries, I do," Trump said.

"I’m not a big fan of hers, but she’s got a spark. He doesn’t.”

Ocasio-Cortez likely would have to win reelection in the House this year before considering a run for the Senate in 2022 – when Schumer would be due to defend his seat.

Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader who turns 70 later this year, has often locked horns with Trump, especially recently over the president's response to coronavirus.

"Cryin’ Chuck Schumer was on a late night show using a false talking point over & over again," Trump tweeted Friday.

“'We don’t have enough testing,' he would repeat, when he knows we have done a great job on Testing, just like we have on Ventilators and everything else.

"He lied, gave NY SALT. Run AOC!"

Trump did not stop there, calling Schumer "a totally overrated loser" who has "brought very little back to N.Y."

"No wonder Cuomo & most others can't stand him. AOC!"

NYC-born Ocasio-Cortiz, a former waitress and bartender, shocked observers when she upset 10-term Democrat Joe Crowley in the primary for the 2018 mid-term elections.

AOC, just 29 at the time, then toppled Republican Anthony Pappas in the general election. She was the youngest woman ever to win a congressional seat.

She was asked last month if she would go for Schumer's seat in two years.

"I don't know," she told Politico's Playbook.

"Right now, you know, my concern is just making sure that I'm taking care of everything that's right in front of me and just making sure that I earned the honor and the privilege of serving New York 14th Congressional District for another term."

She added: "Honestly, this news cycle is so insane who knows where any of us are going to be in 2022."

AOC and Schumer have worked together at times, including asking the federal government to help New Yorkers during the coronavirus crisis.

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