Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D. Bronx) says she and many others are bitterly disappointed that Democrats lost their majority in the House of Representatives.
Just one problem: They didn’t.
In a virtual town hall on Thursday evening, the Bronx-born democratic socialist was asked to weigh-in on the Democratic Party’s disappointing showing in this year’s congressional races.
“So, you know, of course the loss of the House majority is just extraordinarily upsetting to all of us,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
“It’s upsetting to all of us who are invested in having a Democratic majority so that we can expand healthcare, so that we can raise wages, so that we can protect working people,” she went on.
Democrats did not lose their majority and are still in control of the House. They did, however, lose a net of seven seats to the GOP — including Max Rose’s Staten Island seat — sparking a feverish round of finger-pointing over who is to blame.
Ocasio-Cortez, 31, who is the face of the party’s progressive flank, has leveled some of the loudest criticisms at her centrist colleagues since the Nov. 3 election and during the town hall said that the party needed to improve.
“[T]he fact of the matter is if we don’t get better, we’re not going to get better,” she said, pushing back on stereotypes that progressives were granola-eating hippies.
“I do think that we can be much much better in our messaging, and our mechanisms, and who we invest in, and really looking at how we even run these campaigns,” she said.
Her office did not immediately return request for comment on Sunday.
Ocasio-Cortez last week took aim at West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin after he said he didn’t support defunding the police — even after South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn agreed the motto foiled promising Democratic candidates.
The Democratic Party is in the throes of a civil war following last week’s presidential race, which saw Joe Biden win but Democrats’ majority in the House eroded and their dreams of recapturing the Senate fade.
The party’s progressive wing, led by Ocasio-Cortez and fellow “Squad” members Reps. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley, have accused Democratic leadership of resting on their laurels and failing to organize at the grassroots level.
In a post-mortem last Tuesday, progressive groups also charged that it was “unforced errors” like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s ice-cream stunt at the peak of the pandemic which cost them those half dozen seats.
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