Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders stood in defense of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez following President Trump’s offensive remarks for the freshman Democrat, calling her a ‘wack job’.
“It’s going to be a real pleasure defeating you,” Sanders tweeted in response to Trump’s post, The Hill reported.
Ocasio-Cortez hit back at the President’s Twitter post, saying “better than being a criminal who betrays our country,” a reference to Trump’s latest scandal when he asked Ukraine’s Zelensky to investigate leading Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
The President’s comment came after a woman who attended a town hall meeting of Ocasio-Cortez said that the support of lawmakers for the Green New Deal is scarce and that “she should campaign on eating babies.”
The progressive Democrat tweeted about the woman, saying, “I was concerned there was a woman in crisis & want to ensure we treat the situation compassionately.”
“This person may have been suffering from a mental condition and it’s not okay that the right-wing is mocking her and potentially make her condition or crisis worse. Be a decent human being and knock it off,” Ocasio-Cortez added.
Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders have been close allies, and the two have worked together on a few pieces of legislation.
Sanders and Biden are among more than a dozen people competing for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
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