Ocasio Cortez says Democrats won’t save Johnson ‘for free’
by Miranda Nazzaro - 03/25/24 8:31 AM ET
Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday said Democrats will not vote to save Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from being ousted “for free” after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) filed a motion to vacate the Speakership last week.
Several of the New York progressive’s Democratic colleagues indicated they could be willing to help rescue the Speaker from a motion to vacate, especially if he moves Ukraine aid. Ocasio-Cortez said Sunday that her support for the Speaker would have a price.
“I think that Democrats, we work as a team. I am not inclined to vote for a Speaker Johnson. I am not inclined to vote for an individual — for speaker – who doesn’t believe in women’s rights, doesn’t believe in bodily autonomy, who has supported overturning a presidential election,” Ocasio-Cortez said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“My vote would most likely be for a Speaker [Hakeem] Jeffries [D-N.Y.], which becomes an increasingly likely reality day after day, as Republicans pursue further midterm resignations. But I think, for those of us and for any Democrat inclined, I don’t think we do that for free,” she continued.
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