Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria Ocasio-CortezOn The Money: Anxious Democrats push for vote on COVID-19 aid | Pelosi, Mnuchin ready to restart talks | Weekly jobless claims increase | Senate treads close to shutdown deadline McCarthy says there will be a peaceful transition if Biden wins Anxious Democrats amp up pressure for vote on COVID-19 aid MORE (D-N.Y.) said in an interview on Sunday that she's not ready yet to endorse a candidate in the Democratic 2020 presidential race.

"It's possible that I'll endorse later on perhaps, you know, I do not see myself endorsing any time soon," she said on ABC's "This Week."

"We haven't even had our first debates yet. I'm very interested in seeing how things play out," she added. "So we'll see."

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the 2020 election: "It's possible that I'll endorse later on ... I do not see myself endorsing anytime soon. We haven't even had our first debates yet. I'm very interested in seeing how things play out" https://t.co/3S3qFJFu4C pic.twitter.com/EU69fBAM71 — This Week (@ThisWeekABC) June 16, 2019

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"I think what we really need right now is a presidential candidate that is going to fight for the well-being of working-class Americans and all Americans. And I think that he does that excellently," she responded. "I think his policies do that excellently. I believe Sen. [Elizabeth] Warren's [D-Mass.] policies do that excellently. And I think that that's really what we need to be looking for in terms of the agenda."

Ocasio-Cortez also said Democrats risk losing the presidency again to Trump if the party doesn't have a candidate fighting for "transformational change."

"I think that if we elect a president on half-measures that the American people don't quite understand the agenda of a president, you know, a that says we're fighting for higher wages but we don't want a $15 minimum wage, fighting for education but we don't to make colleges tuition-free, fighting for women's rights, et cetera, but we don’t want to go all the way with that, then I think we have a very real risk of losing the presidency," she said.