Democrats need not worry about the renewal of their leadership and the chances they may have in the future of the political race. They have outstanding individuals, starting with Vice President Kamala Harris, who was hailed as the party's official candidate, last Thursday.

But she was not the only one shining light at the convention.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New Yorker who, as her opponents have told her and she does not mind, went from being a waitress in her hometown to a member of the House of Representatives. A new way of being a “Born in the USA”, a message that increasingly resonates in the country.

In her life experience, everything adds up, as she said during her speech.

That may prove to be a deciding factor not only in this campaign but in the political life of AOC, as her supporters call her.

Her presentation during the convention was very significant. For her messages, obviously, for the recognition given to her by her supporters by granting her the honor of being one of the speakers at a high point, and for the reaction of her supporters, who interrupted her several times with loud cheers.

Let's dwell on their messages. The first of them was to invite people to vote for Kamala Harris as president and Tim Walz as vice-president, because they truly represent American workers and will advance a policy in favor of this population. Again, the message was we are “Born in the USA” and it means we are people who have built a self-made and successful life.

Even the darts he launched at the Republican opponent, Donald Trump, served to emphasize the message. According to AOC, Trump only wants his personal benefit and that of his friends on Wall Street.

“We know that Donald Trump would sell this country for a dollar if it meant lining his own pockets and greasing the palms of his Wall Street friends” and immediately followed by delivering one of his strongest phrases and one that marked a peak in the emotions of the audience, “I, for one, am tired about of hearing about how a two bit Union Buster thinks of himself as more of a patriot than the woman who fights every single day to lift working people out from under the boots of greed trampling on our way of life.”

AOC's patriotism is perhaps what may make the difference with Trump's patriotism: she knows her constituents and the middle and working class. She knows how to reach their souls, something she learned from serving customers in a restaurant and not in the halls of Capitol Hill or in the trading floors of Wall Street; this is a huge advantage because these premises can be much stronger than the prejudices and biases that Trump resorts to in his speeches.

Her closeness to the working class is shown when she graduates Kamala Harris as purely middle class as well by noting that “I am here tonight because America has before us a rare and precious opportunity in Kamala Harris. We have a chance to elect a president who is for the middle class because she is from the middle class”. Again the auditorium erupted here in resounding applause.

AOC is not the protagonist of this electoral process, but she put on the table a central point in the discussion that will end up balancing the magnetic charges of the electorate: who has the best proposals for a middle class that feels too much uncertainty and is waiting for someone who really manages to improve their living conditions.

That will be the answer that voters will give us next November 5, when the United States will know the name of its 48th President.