I’m Cummings for you, Alexandria!

Meet Bronx resident John Cummings, a Republican and former NYPD Harbor Unit cop turned high-school civics teacher who is mounting a long-shot bid to topple lefty firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez next year.

“But to just come fromm the outside and takeke somebody on is really difficult,” Cummings (far right) told The Post in an exclusive interview.

But the onetime bar-artender Ocasio-Cortezez (near right) inspired him to run — for her 14th Congressional District seat that covers parts of The Bronx and Queens.

“It was pointed out too me by my students that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pretty much made my excuse — and I’ll use their quotes — ‘a lame one,’ ” he said.

So the 59-year-old Saint Raymond HS instructor filed paperwork Friday with the Federal Election Commission to declare his long-odds candidacy as a Republican in a district that Hillary Clinton won by nearly 58 points over President Trump in 2016.

The Bronx GOP said Cummings will be an attractive candidate and a clear alternative to democratic socialist Ocasio-Cortez.

“Unlike AOC, John Cummings was born and raised in the district,” said Bronx County Republican Chairman Mike Rendino. “He will be able to connect with the real New Yorkers in the Bronx and Queens who AOC takes for granted.”

The freshman representative — who sent shock waves through the political establishment last year with her upset victory against long-term Democratic Party Congressman Joe Crowley — didn’tt open a district office in Queens until two months after taking office.

Cummings followed in his cop father’s footsteps, joining the NYPD in 1983.

He worked in the South Bronx before moving to the NYPD’s Harbor Unit and then turned to teaching.