President-elect Trump on Wednesday inspired Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) to “keep trying” after the congresswoman misplaced the vote to be the highest Democrat on the Home Oversight and Accountability Committee within the upcoming Congress.
“Really too bad that AOC lost the Battle for the Leadership Seat in the Democrat Party. She should keep trying. Someday, she will be successful!” Trump wrote in a publish Wednesday on Reality Social.
Trump’s remark comes after Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) defeated Ocasio-Cortez in a vote Tuesday.
Connolly’s win was forecast Monday after the Democratic Steering and Coverage Committee, headed by Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), gave a lift to the congressman after it voted to advocate him for the function. He had additionally been endorsed by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who lobbied on his behalf.
Connolly has a decade extra expertise than Ocasio-Cortez on the panel, although the New York Democrat has made a reputation for herself as an unapologetic defender of progressive beliefs.
Trump in a bout of uncommon reward earlier this 12 months mentioned that Ocasio-Cortez, a vocal critic of the Republican chief, has “a good spark” and claimed he warned aides to former Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) throughout his 2018 major in opposition to Ocasio-Cortez that she could possibly be a risk to him politically. She ended up defeating Crowley.
Following the election, Ocasio-Cortez warned about the potential hostile influence of Trump’s victory, underscoring what she considered as freedoms that could possibly be threatened by the president-elect.
“I’m not here to sugarcoat what we all are about to collectively experience, but I think that what we can do to prepare is build community,” Ocasio-Cortez mentioned on an Instagram livestream.
She had cited the Republican trifecta of victories in each chambers of Congress and the White Home, mass deportation and the elimination of vaccines — a nod to vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who’s now Trump’s choose to steer the Division of Well being and Human Providers — as causes for her alarm.
