Posted on 05/10/2026 1:58:53 AM PDT by RandFan
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Friday warned Democrats against forming alliances with former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), accusing the former lawmaker of being a “proven bigot.”
A student at an event hosted by the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics asked Ocasio-Cortez about working across the aisle with Republican lawmakers, including Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), and if she stood by comments she made in 2021 about “legitimate white supremacist sympathizers at the core of the House of Representatives caucus.”
Ocasio-Cortez said she stood by the comments, and that her work with Republican colleagues has been “about where we trust intent, where we trust where those outcomes are going.”
“I personally do not trust someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene, a proven bigot and antisemite, on the issues of what is good for Gazans and Israelis,” she said. “I don’t think that it benefits our movement, in that instance, to align the left with white nationalists, I don’t think it serves us.”
The Hill has reached out to Greene for comment.
Ocasio-Cortez also referred to Burchett, who she said has called her a “communist, and a witch, and whatever it is… But you know what? We’ve got to ban insider trading in Congress. And I don’t –– I care about results, I care about results.”
Burchett, speaking with NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo in October, talked about his working relationship with the progressive firebrand and called her his “buddy” and a “friendly neighborhood Marxist.”
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Someone calling out AOC is not racism. It is not against her supposed Hispanic background, it is personal. Her. AOC is a ‘tard. Calling that out is not bigotry.
MTG is going to find out what Liz Cheney did. Democrats aren’t that into her.
Too easy. AOC is the bigot.
Ro Khanna is a fascist. He’s not a moderate.
Does MTG think women and blacks are too stupid to get ID? Does she hang around with Islamic Jew haters?
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