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AOC responds to Florida holiday controversy | AOC responds to Florida holiday controversy |
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The lawmaker lashed out at the “creepy weirdos” criticizing her recent trip to Florida | |
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) responded to the wave of criticism she received over photos of her vacationing in Florida, claiming her Republican critics are taking out their “sexual frustrations.” | |
Ocasio-Cortez directly responded to critics on Friday after they accused her of fleeing her home state of New York amid a coronavirus surge and sweeping restrictions to take a vacation in Florida, which has been heavily criticized by Democrats for rejecting the use of strict Covid mandates, many of which Ocasio-Cortez supports. The progressive Democrat faced massive backlash after photos of her and her boyfriend dining out in Miami Beach were published the night before. | |
“If Republicans are mad they can’t date me they can just say that,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in one Friday tweet, pushing back against accusations of hypocrisy and elitism. | “If Republicans are mad they can’t date me they can just say that,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in one Friday tweet, pushing back against accusations of hypocrisy and elitism. |
In a separate tweet, the congresswoman accused Republicans of having “very obvious, strange, and deranged sexual frustrations,” suggesting that these from the basis of “the Republican fixation on me, women & LGBT+ people in general.” | |
“These people clearly need therapy, won’t do it, and use politics as their outlet instead,” she wrote. | “These people clearly need therapy, won’t do it, and use politics as their outlet instead,” she wrote. |
Ocasio-Cortez also took a swipe at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ office, which had joined in on the mocking the night before. “Hasn’t Gov. DeSantis been inexplicably missing for like 2 weeks?” she tweeted, referring to the Republican governor’s absence from the public eye that has sparked speculation. | |
On Tuesday, the Democratic mayor of Orange County said Floridians “should be outraged” with DeSantis. While the governor has not commented on the issue, Fox News reported on Friday, citing a DeSantis spokesperson, that the governor accompanied his wife, who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, to a treatment center on December 29. |