The New York Democrat additionally mentioned race performed a task within the removing of the 2 lawmakers, who have been black.
“It was very racist,” Ocasio-Cortez mentioned, noting “completely disrespectful and insulting feedback made to black members of the Tennessee Home of Representatives.”
She additionally famous that Rep. Gloria Johnson — a white Democrat who equally participated within the protest and confronted an expulsion vote — narrowly retained her seat.
Ocasio-Cortez joins quite a few different distinguished Democrats who’ve criticized the Home expulsions, together with the president Joe Bidenvp Kamala Harrisearlier president Barack Obama And former Vice President Al Gore.