With the 2024 election season fast approaching, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is keeping her options open.

A progressive darling, Ocasio-Cortez has enjoyed outsize pull on the Left and has been met with occasional buzz that she may seek higher office, such as the Senate or maybe even the presidency.

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“There’s a world where I’m here for a long time in this seat, in this position. There’s a world where I’m not an elected official anymore. There’s a world where … I may be in higher office,” Ocasio-Cortez told Politico.

At 33, Ocasio-Cortez would technically just meet the age requirement to run for president in 2024, though she has shown little interest in challenging presumed front-runner President Joe Biden. Instead, many rumors have swirled that she may mount a primary challenge against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), who is up for reelection.

"Don’t ask me that question," Ocasio-Cortez said when asked if she plans to run for Gillibrand's seat. "Print that."

Similar conjecture stirred last cycle that she may challenge Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), though that never came to fruition. The specter of a primary challenge from Ocasio-Cortez loomed as Schumer sought to eke out wins during his first two years atop the upper chamber.

As she prepares to decide her next steps, the congresswoman has been striking a more collaborative tone with top Democrats. Once a thorn in Rep. Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) side, Ocasio-Cortez has largely avoided House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries's (D-NY) ire, at least publicly.

This marks a dramatic departure from her early days in the lower chamber, in which she frequently skipped party caucus meetings and sought to nudge her party to the left. Her penchant for bucking the party leaders and joining "the Squad" drew comparisons with the right flank of House Republicans.

“There are people, including moderates, who sometimes try to draw this completely unfair, false equivalence between progressives and, frankly, the fascists that we see in the Republican Party,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

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Now armed with a spot on the Oversight Committee as the vice-ranking member, Ocasio-Cortez's influence within her caucus appears to be on the rise.

“One of those things that I really learned during that period was that there was nothing I could do that would dampen that fervor. Whether I participated in it or not, there was just going to be all these stories and all of these things,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “And so I decided to have agency."