Dec. 21, 2020 - The Ben Shapiro Show
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| So, number one, I just have to note this because it's hilarious. | |
| Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, she keeps saying that she's a very important legislator. | |
| It turns out that her own party is like, nope, we don't like you very much. | |
| It turns out that the dislike for AOC spans the political aisle. | |
| According to Ryan Sevetter reporting over at Daily Wire, Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez Ouch! | |
| overwhelmingly rejected during a secret ballot vote on Friday in her bid to be seated on a powerful congressional committee. Democrats overwhelmingly voted to give the seat on House Energy and Commerce Committee to Representative Kathleen Rice, Democrat of New York, instead of AOC in what ended up being a 46 to 13 vote. Ouch! Kathleen Rice is a more moderate Democrat who also happens to have spent her time instead of posting videos on Instagram or on Twitch actually working the Democrats in order to get that slot. | |
| According to Politico, Rice and Ocasio-Cortez have been battling behind the scenes for weeks to secure one of the few open seats on the exclusive committee which oversees everything from health care policy to climate issues. | |
| Tension spilled out into the open Thursday in a private meeting of the Steering and Policy Committee, where Democrats were forced to choose between the two members in a tense and awkward secret ballot vote. | |
| They still have secret ballots, so you can say that you don't like AOC anonymously. | |
| Politico notes that Ocasio-Cortez was rejected because many in the party view her far-left policies as a threat, and also she's been backing all sorts of challenges to incumbents, and they're like, you know what, screw you. | |
| One member of Congress told Axios the vote would have been very different if it wasn't secret, which suggests Democrats are afraid of AOC publicly. | |
| But secretly, they really, really do not like her at all. | |
| Like, at all. |
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