Rep.Ā Alexandria Ocasio-CortezĀ (D-N.Y.) is challenging PresidentĀ Donald TrumpĀ to release his college transcript to show who was the better student after he attacked her intelligence on national TV.
On Thursday, she shared a clip from an interview Trump did on Fox Business earlier in the day where he said she was a āpoor studentā and ānot even a smart person.ā
āAOC was a poor student. I wonāt say where she went to school it doesnāt matter. This is not even a smart person, other than sheās got a good line of stuff. I mean, she goes out and she yaps,ā he said.
That prompted Ocasio-Cortez to issue her challenge, āLetās make a deal, Mr. President: You release your college transcript, Iāll release mine, and weāll see who was the better student.ā
āLoser has to fund the Post Office,ā she added.
Congressional Democrats have raised concerns that without adequate funding, the U.S. Postal Service will fail to handle the surge in mail-in ballots expected to be cast in the upcoming election.
During that same interview, Trump fueled concerns that he was trying to sabotage the U.S. Postal Service ahead of the election. He said, ā want $25 billion for the post office. Now, they need that money in order to have the post office work so it could take all of these millions and millions of ballots.ā
āNow, in the meantime, they arenāt getting there. By the way, those are just two items. But if they donāt get those two items, that means you canāt have universal mail-in voting, because theyāre not equipped to have it,ā he added.
Later in the interview, he said, āNow, if we donāt make a deal, that means they donāt get the money. That means they canāt have universal mail-in voting ⦠They just canāt have it. So, you know, sort of a crazy thing.ā
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) recently accused Trump of trying to undermine the Postal Service, as IJR reported.
In a tweet, she called on Congress to āshore up the USPS so everyone can continue to receive the essential supplies they need, and so as many Americans as possible can safely vote from home.ā
Highlighting the financial troubles the agency is facing, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy warned that without ādramatic change,ā his agency will face āface an impending liquidity crisis.ā
