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New York Democrat Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tore into outgoing Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri over the weekend for previous comments she made.
In response to McCaskill, who was defeated last month by GOP Sen.-elect Josh Hawley, Ocasio-Cortez slammed the Missouri Democrat for calling her a “shiny new object” and questioning why everyone was so obsessed with her.
“Not sure why fmr Sen. McCaskill keeps going on TV to call me a ‘thing’ and ‘shiny object,’ but it’s pretty disappointing. McCaskill promised she’d ‘100% back Trump up’ on his anti-immigrant rhetoric & lost. In MO, almost all progressive ballot issues won,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote.
“I’m also not sure why McCaskill is covering for the GOP by saying they ‘secretly think Trump is nuts.’ Nobody cares. Trump is melting down our institutions and inciting division between people. At any time GOP could have checked him and choose not to. They’re accomplices,” she added in a follow-up tweet.
Ocasio-Cortez’s comments came in response to McCaskill’s recent
interviewwith CNN, where she tore into Ocasio-Cortez.
“I’m a little confused why she’s the thing,” McCaskill said. “She’s now talked about a lot. I’m not sure what she’s done yet to generate that kind of enthusiasm, but I wish her well.”
McCaskill then said that “the rhetoric is cheap” and “getting results is a lot harder” when asked about Ocasio-Cortez’s radical policies gaining steam in Washington.
“I hope she hangs the moon. But I hope she also realizes that the parts of the country that are rejecting the Democratic Party, like a whole lot of white working class voters, need to hear about how their work is going to be respected, and the dignity of their jobs, and how we can really stick to issues that we can actually accomplish something on,” she added.
Watch below:
McCaskill warned the Democratic Party about going too far to the left, supporting Ocasio-Cortez’s progressive policies, and ignoring working class, white voters.
Ocasio-Cortez has dominated headlines since she defeated 10-term Rep. Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., earlier this year in the Democratic primary.
The New York socialist called Jesus a “
refugee” on Christmas to score cheap political points while speaking positively about refugees.
She was referring to the biblical account of Jesus’ birth in a stable manger, and she got the story completely wrong.
When they got to Bethlehem, Mary and Joseph registered for the census. They weren’t illegal aliens or refugees, they were obeying the law.
Last week, she took to Twitter to announce that she will be taking a “
few days” to pamper herself with “
self-care” to help prepare for her new new job in Congress — which doesn’t begin until next month.
Before that, she called outgoing White House Chief of Staff General John Kelly a
coward.
Last month, she misquoted the U.S. Constitution and
falsely claimed that the age restriction to run for president only applies to men and not women.
She also
threatened to subpoena Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, for trolling her with a meme on social media.
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