Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign, a strong sign of Democratic unity from one of the party’s most liberal members.

I think he’s done pretty well given the limitations we have,” Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday on the Pod Save America podcast. “I think there is an ebb and flow.

Ocasio-Cortez, a self-described Democratic Socialist from New York, has at times opposed Biden and party leaders, including voting against the deal the president negotiated with Republicans in May to raise the country’s debt ceiling and cast the only Democratic vote against a spending limit. bill to keep the government running and avoid a partial government shutdown.

She supported Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary and objected in an interview last year when asked if she would support the incumbent in 2024.

Biden faces nominal primary challenges for next year’s election in self-help author Marianne Williamson and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

When Ocasio was asked if she would support Biden, she said, “I believe, given that field, yes.

The congressman said she felt Biden had a strong start to his presidency with the passage of the US bailout, aimed at mitigating the effects of the pandemic, and the Inflation Reduction Act, a key climate and healthcare bill.

But,” said Ocasio-Cortez, “there are also areas where I think they could have done better.