Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union mirrored the booing and shouts of some of her House colleagues inside the chamber during his speech.
Sanders, who was recently elected, told the public: “Biden and the Democrats have failed you,” drawing a stark divide between the two parties and highlighting what she called the “left-wing culture war.”Ocasio-Cortez called the governor’s remarks insulting following the rebuttal.
.@AOC joins @LinseyDavis following the Republican response to Pres. Biden’s #SOTU:"It's unsurprising that Gov. Huckabee Sanders' response was emotionally and thematically kind of in tune with how Republicans were behaving tonight." https://t.co/GAjqadka2Y pic.twitter.com/0yMiUW1lOa“It’s unsurprising that Gov.
The New York Democrat was reacting to Sanders’s comments that while she’s the first female governor of Arkansas, Biden is “the first man to surrender his presidency to a woke mob who can’t even tell you what a woman is.” “In this moment when trans Americans have been under so much attack, it is disgusting, frankly, to have such a vulnerable community targeted on such a large platform and alluded to and insinuated to in this way, when they deserve dignity just like every American does,” Ocasio-Cortez said.In moments throughout the address, Republicans in the chamber shouted and protested the president’s remarks.
“I think it was quite surprising, quite shocking. Even under President Trump and his administration, we never saw such a contentious, heckled State of the Union, even when President Trump himself was advancing statements that many would have considered false,” she added.
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