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Is AOC eligible to be president or vice president in 2020 or 2024?

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY., has emerged as a rising progressive leader during her first term as a congresswoman. Because of her popularity, she's been touted as a possible candidate for president or vice president. Here's when Ocasio-Cortez will be eligible for those higher offices.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has been floated as a possible presidential or vice presidential candidate -- but is the rising progressive star too young for those top positions?

Section 1 of Article Two of the U.S. Constitution establishes the eligibility requirements for the presidency: 'No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.'

And, the 12th Amendment to the Constitution sets the requirements for the vice presidency: '...[N]o person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.'

Ocasio-Cortez was born on October 13, 1989, meaning she would not be 35 years old by Inauguration Day on January 20, 2021. Therefore, even though she is a natural-born citizen and a long-term U.S. resident, Ocasio-Cortez is ineligible to be either the president or vice president in the 2020 campaign cycle. AOC would also be ineligible to fill these posts at any time during the next administration.

However, Ocasio-Cortez would be eligible to serve as president or vice president in the 2024 campaign cycle, narrowly making the age cutoff. She will have turned 35 by Inauguration Day on January 20, 2025.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has been floated as a possible presidential contender. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

The only possible constitutional exceptions that could barr AOC from the high offices would occur in rather extreme circumstances -- including if AOC were ever somehow impeached or disqualified by the U.S. Senate, or found to have rebelled against the United States.

In the meantime, Ocasio-Cortez, who endorsed Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential bid, has kept up her high profile as a first-term congresswoman with an urgent and unique agenda.

'One thing that I am concerned about ... is in our climate,' Ocasio-Cortez said as Joe Biden cemented his frontrunner status in the 2020 race. 'I'm legitimately concerned about what this means for carbon emissions... There are many many issues where peoples' lives are on the line. But the scale and the feedback and the irreversible nature of climate change is something that we all really need to pay close attention to.'

And top progressives, who have watched as Ocasio-Cortez has repeatedly taken on Democratic congressional leaders, say she isn't going anywhere.

“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a leader in the progressive movement,” longtime Bernie Sanders adviser Jeff Weaver told Politico last year. “She is broadly popular, frankly, among Democratic voters. She is particularly strong with young voters, voters of color.'

Fox News' Tyler Olson contributed to this report.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y., said it would 'be an honor to be vice president” in a recent Spanish-language interview Sunday before headlining a Las Vegas campaign event for Sen. Bernie Sanders.

The 30-year-old freshman congresswoman quickly pointed out that she falls five years short of the constitutional age limit to be vice president. The vice president – and president – must be at least 35 years old.

“It’d be an honor to be vice president,” Ocasio-Cortez told 'Noticias Telemundo' correspondent Guadalupe Venegas in Las Vegas. “I can’t because I’m not old enough.”

Ocasio-Cortez gave a keynote address at Sanders’ Spanish-language town hall in Las Vegas on Sunday. She endorsed him for the White House in October and could play a key role for the Vermont independent in seeking Nevada’s large Latino vote, differentiating himself from fellow progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

“I was a community organizer in the Bronx for Sen. Sanders during the last presidential campaign,” Ocasio-Cortez added. “That was my first experience, organizing right there in the street for an election.”

“Before that, I did community work in education, with the Latino community and with the National Hispanic Institute, but that was my first time organizing for an election. It was an experience that I will never forget,” she continued. “It was an important part of my experience when I decided to run for Congress. I learned that there was another way of doing politics here in the U.S.”

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Also in her interview with “Noticias Telemundo,” Ocasio-Cortez, whose mother is Puerto Rican, reiterated how important it was for her to continue to practice her Spanish.

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“If we are first- or second-generation, it is important that we cultivate our language. I must speak and practice more to improve my own Spanish. Our language is the link with our families and our communities,” Ocasio-Cortez said. She had tweeted that she was 'nervous' to host the town hall in Spanish because she doesn't speak the language often.

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She also spoke about how far she’s come over the past year and a half, since ousting a powerful incumbent Democrat in New York's 14th Congressional District in a June 2018 primary and then defeating a Republican in the general election that November.

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“Last year I worked in a taqueria, as a waitress and as a bartender, and now I am a congresswoman,” she said. “That is a huge change. But my values are the same. And we are saying the same thing we were saying last year: that we must fight for working families, for health insurance, for education for all children and a fair salary.”