Vice President J.D. Vance laughed on Tuesday when shown a clip of Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attempting to answer a foreign policy question at the Munich Security Conference.
Ocasio-Cortez fumbled basic foreign policy questions at the conference on Friday despite having spent months preparing for the event. In response to a clip of Ocasio-Cortez struggling to say whether the U.S. should deploy troops to defend Taiwan against Communist China, Vance said on “The Story with Martha MacCallum” that the congresswoman does not have thoughtful opinions about global politics.
“Martha, you bring me on your show, you show me the most uncomfortable 20 seconds of television I’ve ever seen,” Vance said. “I think it’s a person who doesn’t know what she actually thinks. And I’ve seen this way too much in Washington with politicians where they’re given lines and when you ask them to go outside the lines they were given, they completely fall apart because look, does AOC, does anybody really believe, that AOC has very thoughtful ideas about the global world order or about what the United States should do with our policy in Asia or our policy in Europe?”
“No, this is a person who is mouthing the slogans that somebody else gave her and it shows how thin the Democrats policy actually is on all these very, very important questions,” Vance continued. “Look, that was embarrassing. If I had given that answer, I would say you know what, maybe I should go read a book about China and Taiwan before I go out on the world stage again. I hope that Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez has the same humility, I’m skeptical.”
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Ocasio-Cortez stumbled for about 20 seconds on the question about Taiwan and eventually stated that it was a “longstanding policy” of the U.S. She also confused “Trans-Pacific Partnership” with the transatlantic partnership, an error which she later acknowledged online.
During an appearance at the Technical University of Berlin’s TEDx event on Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez falsely claimed Venezuela was “below the equator” and attempted to fact-check Secretary of State Marco Rubio for saying that American cowboy culture came from Spanish settlers. The Spanish brought horses and cattle to Mexico in the 14th and 15th centuries and taught North American indigenous populations how to wrangle cattle to maintain ranches, which later evolved into the modern-day cowboy archetype.
Ocasio-Cortez accused conservative media in an interview with The New York Times of making “any five-to-10-second thing” go viral to “distract from the substance” of what she was saying.
“The Huddle” co-host Dan Turrentine noted on Monday that none of Ocasio-Cortez’s allies defended her performance and that she proved herself unfit to enter the world stage. The congresswoman did not rule out a potential presidential run in 2028 during the conference on Friday.
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