A Bronx Republican who blames Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for scuttling the Amazon deal says she plans to run against the Democrat next year as a pro-jobs candidate.

“[AOC] chose ideology over paychecks,” swannabe candidate and medical journalist Ruth Papazian, noting that Amazon vowed to create 25,000 jobs before pulling out of its deal to open a campus in Queens. “People need jobs. We don’t have economic diversity in the outer boroughs.”

Papazian, 61, a lifelong Bronx resident and medical journalist, has met with GOP officials who have encouraged her to enter what would be an uphill race.

A daughter of Egyptian immigrants, Papazian said she would run on a platform of creating jobs, not chasing them away.

She said the Amazon fiasco is just one example of Ocasio-Cortez being too far to the left for her Bronx-Queens district.

“The Green New Deal is a job-killer,” Papazian said of the congresswoman’s environmental agenda.

Mike Volpe, a 48-year-old Republican resident from Throgs Neck, agreed.

“You don’t even have to tell me [Papazian’s] name — she already has my vote,’’ he said.

“Will she lose with or without my vote? Probably. But you never know. I think a lot of people are starting to realize that [Ocasio-Cortez] is an empty vessel with a really loud mouth.”

Another GOPer, Luana Malavolta, 58, also of Throgs Neck called Papazian “really, really smart.

“We could certainly use somebody in The Bronx who understands health, because that’s what constituents need,’’ she said, asserting that the borough’s older constituents could give the fledgling candidate a boost.

As for AOC, Malavolta added, “I think she’s just a dumb kid who answered a casting call.”

But some Bronx Democrats scoffed at the idea that any Republican could win the seat back.

“What chance does a Republican have of winning a district where there are five, six times as many registered Democrats as Republicans?” said Egidio Sementilli, 54, a politically active Democrat from Pelham Bay.

“I’m a supporter of Ocasio-Cortez. I think she’s shaking up the world.”

Fellow Democratic resident Clara Figueras, 35, of Morris Park added, “This is my first time hearing [Papazian] name, so I’d have to do some research before I decided who I’d vote for. But honestly, I can tell you right now that Alexandria most likely will get my vote.

“I wasn’t happy about Amazon, I’ll admit that. I think she was too focused on the tax incentives and didn’t see the bigger picture of how Amazon would help New Yorkers in the long run.

“But she’s got a big vision and a lot of energy, and I think all she has to do is control her passion.”

Any Republican faces long odds in taking on Ocasio-Cortez. Her district is overwhelmingly Democratic and the socialist Democrat beat her GOP rival last year by 78 to 14 percent.

Papazian said she’s confident she can find voters who aren’t enthralled with the congresswoman.

“There are Albanian immigrants in my community who’ve lived under socialism and communism, and they want no part of it. They are hard-working, entrepreneurial and are striving to achieve the American dream. Ocasio-Cortez certainly doesn’t represent them,” she said.

Papazian also said moderate voters in the district are “pro-Israel and patriotic” while Ocasio-Cortez associates with people who support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against the Jewish state.

Bronx Republican leader Michael Rendino and state GOP chairman Ed Cox confirmed talking to Papazian.

“I’ve sat down with her and encouraged her to make the rounds. She is speaking to the right people,” Rendino said.

Said Cox, “It certainly looks like we have one good candidate.”