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Fox has propagandized the right to hate her to such an immense degree that this simply is a terrible idea. She can never win.
Why is it a problem that the right hate her? They're not voting for her anyway. Modern US elections are won by motivating new people on your own side to vote, not by reaching across the aisle.
Well the propaganda doesn't only work on the right.
Also, the youngest elected president in history was 43. She has zero chance.
Why does that matter? She's well over the age limit, and we've been getting the oldest president ever quite a few times. The US is all about overcompensating, so I don't see why we couldn't swing back to the youngest ever by a small margin. She's nearly 36 now, so she'll be 39 when the term starts. I'd certainly be excited about the prospect of having a president who grew up with electricity.
Im sorry youre getting down voted, because youre right. Sorry to be a downer but I interact with real people (unlike i presume a lot of lemmings), and a LOT of them do not like her, for reasons spread by propaganda news all over the place. They know nothing other than she's a woman and will take yer guns, so she will never win.
I hope we are wrong though.
So the way I could see this working for her is have Bernie Sanders come and endorse her right out the gate (I doubt he'd be up for being her running mate, but it'd probably be an even better run if he accepted that).
Ol' boy had been VERY effective at breaking into right - leaning spaces and I could see him contributing to getting the historically Democrat (but not recently Democrat) voter out for AOC.
My real concern is the party leaders. I could see them trying to hold back resources and effectively pulling the same moves they pulled in Bernie to hold her down.