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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says Democrats shouldn’t trust Marjorie Taylor Greene (www.nbcnews.com)

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The position puts her at odds with some on the left, such as Rep. Ro Khanna, another potential 2028 contender, who said he wants to find “common ground” with people like Greene.

In a conversation Friday at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics moderated by David Axelrod, the onetime political strategist to President Barack Obama, a student asked Ocasio-Cortez whether she stood by past remarks that there were “legitimate white supremacist sympathizers at the core of the House of Representatives caucus” and, if so, why she worked with some of them.

Ocasio-Cortez did stand by them and said she wasn’t scared of reaching across the aisle, holding up her work with Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn. But she set a clear boundary.

“I personally do not trust someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene, a proven bigot and antisemite, on the issue of what is good for Gazans and Israelis,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “I don’t think it benefits our movement in that instance to align the left with white nationalists. I don’t think it serves us.”

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

100% and my view of this threads is just the hogs eating it up.

AOC was wrong with her votes and her making this about MTG instead of about stopping genocide: its not gonna work.

[-] UnpledgedCatnapTipper@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

AOC voted against MTG's amendment, but then voted against the full bill. I really fail to see the issue voting against amending a bill that you're against in its entirety.

Edit: the amendment got a total of 6 votes in favor

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Its just another signal of AOC's bad political instincts. Its not like Ilhan got this vote wrong. Al Green didn't get this vote wrong. And implicit in what AOC is saying here is that these other members of congress shouldn't have voted to support the resolution.

AOC just got the vote wrong and no amount of her shit around "I care about results" excuses her getting outplayed on this issue. And to me thats the bigger conversation, which is, how are AOC's instincts on issues? Does she end up on the right things first or does she, like you said, vote against an amendment to defund Israel, and eventually got it right.

Voting on a bill to defund Israel doesn't mean you are joining a make-out session with MTG. This is about getting things first time right, and AOC straight blew it here.

Some good dropsite coverage on it here: https://inv.nadeko.net/embed/X3RatYjFSj8?t=320

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

AOC explained why she voted against the amendement as well on Twitter. Because she wanted Israel to receive American weapons.

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