Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) delivered a stinging evaluation of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) after House Republicans failed this week with their baseless bid to question Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
“Let’s just call a spade a spade here,” Ocasio-Cortez advised MSNBC’s “All In” host Chris Hayes on Wednesday.
“Republicans are dealing with not their first-choice speaker, not their second-choice speaker, not their third-choice speaker. They’re dealing with the speaker that they could get and that they could agree on,” Ocasio-Cortez identified, drawing laughter from Hayes.
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“That means an individual that does not have experience in party leadership, that is a relative newcomer when it comes to the [caliber] of member that you’re used to seeing when they typically get the speaker’s gavel,” the lawmaker continued. It means “the experience in vote-counting is not quite up to the standard that we usually see in a speakership.”
There was additionally “absolutely no evidence for an impeachable offense” and the entire tried impeachment was “completely politicized,” she added.
Ocasio-Cortez later mocked conservative complaints over their slim 214-216 defeat that the Democrats hadn’t offered them with their attendance counts as “laughable.”
“It really speaks to the fact that you’re working with people who are not used to being in this chamber,” she mentioned.
Hayes famous how some Republicans “were mad” they hadn’t been advised Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) would briefly depart the hospital, the place he was present process belly surgical procedure, to go to Congress and forged his vote towards the impeachment.
“Like, you should have given them a heads-up on that,” he sarcastically steered.
Ocasio-Cortez replied, “I mean, if you didn’t expect Al Green to be doing that, then you don’t know who Al, Reverend and Rep. Al Green is.”
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