Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria Ocasio-CortezWells Fargo CEO issues apology after saying there was a 'limited pool of Black talent' Brand responds to Trump claim protesters throw tuna cans at police: 'Eat em, don't throw em' CNN's Don Lemon: 'Blow up the entire system' remark taken out of context MORE (D-N.Y.) said she's not ready to endorse a 2020 candidate but offered praise for several members of the crowded field this weekend, according to the Boston Herald.

“I’m extremely excited by the policies and the policy leadership, the plan leadership, that‘s been advanced by Sen. [Elizabeth] Warren [D-Mass.],” Ocasio-Cortez said Saturday during a visit to Brookline, Mass., to endorse a candidate for local office. “Of course I worked on Sen. [Bernie] Sanders’ [I-Vt.] campaign, and I find his values to be my values, too.”

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Ocasio-Cortez offered praise for several other Democratic hopefuls as well, according to the newspaper, calling Gov. Jay Inslee Jay Robert InsleeBarr asked prosecutors to explore charging Seattle mayor over protest zone: report Bottom line Oregon senator says Trump's blame on 'forest management' for wildfires is 'just a big and devastating lie' MORE’s (D-Wash.) leadership on climate and environmental issues “phenomenal” as well as lauding Sen. Cory Booker Cory Anthony BookerBipartisan praise pours in after Ginsburg's death DHS opens probe into allegations at Georgia ICE facility Democratic lawmakers call for an investigation into allegations of medical neglect at Georgia ICE facility MORE (D-N.J.) for his work on criminal justice reform.

“I tend to look for transformative policy for working class Americans,” in a candidate, as well as a “longstanding commitment to those policies, so it’s not just a recent adoption of caring for all working-class folks,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

But she added that for now she intended to reserve her endorsements for local contests, “because this is how we’re going to rebuild our country from the bottom up.” Ocasio-Cortez was in Brookline to endorse Raul Fernandez’s candidacy for Select Board. Fernandez was one of Ocasio-Cortez’s teachers at Boston University, and the video in which she danced on a rooftop to Phoenix’s “Lisztomania” was his idea.

Ocasio-Cortez also declined to make an endorsement in an April interview, offering similar praise for Sanders and Warren but saying the prospect of a bid by former Vice President Joe Biden Joe BidenBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Democratic groups using Bloomberg money to launch M in Spanish language ads in Florida Harris faces pivotal moment with Supreme Court battle MORE, who had not yet formally announced his candidacy at the time did “not particularly animate” her.