U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is perplexed over why President Joe Biden hasn’t reached out to her for help in getting reelected in 2024.
During an appearance Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press, anchor Kristen Welker asked: “Has the Biden campaign reached out to you and said, ‘We want you to help reelect President Biden’? How do you see your role and the role of progressives in this reelection effort?”
“I see my role overall as really trying to expand the power of movements,” AOC replied. When Welker pressed, she added: “We’ve been in contact with the Biden administration throughout my term and throughout his term, as well.”
Team Biden is reportedly looking to former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton to hold a joint fundraiser with the president to give his reelection campaign a jolt.
Welker also asked Ocasio-Cortez whether the White House is “supporting genocide” by standing with Israel in its fight against the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas — interestingly, the leader of “the squad” did not denounce the term “Genocide Joe.”
“Some of your colleagues have… called the president ‘Genocide Joe.’ Some of your colleagues have accused the president of supporting genocide, including Rashida Tlaib,” Welker said. “Do you agree with that word, genocide, that the president’s been supporting a genocide, or does that go too far?”
WATCH: @kwelkernbc asks @RepAOC (D-N.Y.) if she agrees “the president has been supporting a genocide” in Gaza.
Ocasio-Cortez: “I think what we are seeing … is that young people are appalled at the violence and the indiscriminate loss of life.” pic.twitter.com/Uaiv6bcRUl
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) January 28, 2024
“I think what we are seeing right now throughout the country is that young people are appalled at the violence and the indiscriminate loss of life,” AOC said, avoiding a direct answer. “We are not just seeing 25,000 people that have died in Gaza. We are seeing the starvation of millions of people, the displacement of over 2 million Gazans. We have South Africa that has mounted a court in the ICJ. The ICJ ruled this week that Israel has a grave responsibility to prevent genocide.”
When Welker questioned if the use of the term was “responsible,” Ocasio-Cortez continued to beat around the bush.
“And so whether you are an individual that believes this is a genocide, which, by the way, in our polling, we are seeing large amounts of Americans concerned specifically with that word. So I don’t think that it is something to completely, toss someone out of our public discourse for using,” she said.
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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