Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) claims she could not ever become president of the United States because “so many” Americans “hate women.” Her comments came after the most recent woman to be nominated by a major political party to run for president, Democrat Hillary Clinton, won the popular vote in 2016.
Ocasio-Cortez made her baseless comments in an interview with GQ magazine published Wednesday, saying the said her experience has “given [her] a front-row seat to how deeply and unconsciously, as well as consciously, so many people in this country hate women.”
“And they hate women of color,” Ocasio-Cortez continued, according to the New York Post.
“People ask me questions about the future. And realistically, I can’t even tell you if I’m going to be alive in September,” she continued. “And that weighs very heavily on me. And it’s not just the right wing. Misogyny transcends political ideology: left, right, center.”
In the interview, the congresswoman also said she experienced “open hostility” from her fellow Democrat colleagues after taking office in 2018.
“It was open hostility, open hostility to my presence, my existence,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
“Since I got here, literally day one, even before day one, I’ve experienced a lot of targeting diminishment from my party,” she continued. “And the pervasiveness of that diminishment, it was all-encompassing at times. I feel a little more steady on my own two feet now… But would I say that I have the power to shift the elected federal Democratic Party? No.”
