Ocasio-Cortez Hits Back at Manchin After He Criticized ‘Defund the Police’ Slogan
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is firing back at Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) after he mocked “defund the police” and “crazy socialist” agendas. “Defund the police? Defund, my butt. I’m a proud West Virginia…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is firing back at Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) after he mocked “defund the police” and “crazy socialist” agendas.
“Defund the police? Defund, my butt. I’m a proud West Virginia Democrat. We are the party of working men and women. We want to protect Americans’ jobs & healthcare. We do not have some crazy socialist agenda, and we do not believe in defunding the police,” Manchin tweeted.
Ocasio-Cortez responded by posting an image of herself staring at Manchin while he applauded during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1326969135826427906
Ocasio-Cortez dismissed claims from her Democratic colleagues suggesting progressive agendas lost them seats in the House.
“The conversation is a little bit deeper than that … than just saying, ‘Anything progressive is toxic and a losing message,'” she said, as IJR previously reported.
Ocasio-Cortez criticized former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) for implying Democrats lost seats because some members took progressive positions on a number of social issues driving voters away, as IJR previously reported.
“The Republican party, I think very adroitly, adopted cultural issues as part of their main theme,” McCaskill said during an appearance on MSNBC.