Dems rush to support Pelosi amid fight with Ocasio-Cortez
By Mike Lillis and Cristina Marcos - 07/11/19 06:33 PM EDT
A growing number of progressive House Democrats, frustrated with an ongoing spat between Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D), are taking the freshman New Yorker to task for accusing Pelosi of treating minority women unfairly.
The critics say Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, crossed a line when she accused Pelosi of putting a target on “newly elected women of color†for their far-left policy positions.
The remarks — and the media uproar they’ve created — led exasperated Democrats to sound off Thursday against the freshman social-media sensation, accusing Ocasio-Cortez of harboring unrealistic views about her own influence on Capitol Hill — to the detriment of the Democrats’ ambitious policy agenda.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/452722-dems-rush-to-support-pelosi-amid-fight-with-ocasio-cortez
