Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweets politico.com story is a junk article - gossip

[womanofthehills]

[nycbos]

1. Good

I'm looking forward to her hearing about her support of Jeffries.


But I'm not holding my breath.

[Autumn]

2. Bullshit articles that lie and smear get the best traction.

[sheshe2]

3. 100% agree.

I call bullshit to those twitter and internet polls, like Harvard Harris polls...they sure get a lot of traction.

Love that we can agree here Autumn.

Wishing you and yours the best of this holiday season.

[SixString]

6. They sure do.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211563222

[Autumn]

8. Alternative facts.

[bullwinkle428]

7. "A lie travels halfway around the world before the truth has the chance

to put its pants on."

K&R.

[Autumn]

9. That it does.

[brush]

4. Hope it's bs, if not she needs to tighten up what leaks out of her office.

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Jeffries, btw, was just on CNN as one of the main sponsors of the bipartisan prison reform bill that's about to pass into law.

He's 5th in line in the House leadership hierarchy and is getting things done so whoever thinks he would be an easy target for primarying better back off.

[emulatorloo]

5. ...

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. K&Fuckin' R

[greyl]

11. She continues

Link to tweet

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @Ocasio2018 4:26 PM - 18 Dec 2018

For the record, this is the second @politico article about me in a short period of time with *0* named sources to back claims containing false information.

Their articles are printed + distributed to **Congressional offices** - w/ no named sources.

It’s really unfortunate.

[NewJeffCT]

20. Interesting

so, in both cases now, she has not outright denied that Jeffries is being targeted for primary.

and, as I stated below, I've generally been supportive of her and I like that she fights back hard on Twitter.

[hlthe2b]

12. I would hope so... n/t

[oberliner]

13. What is her opinion of Jeffries?

[seaglass]

14. She's a Justice democrat - this is what they do. It would probably be a good idea for her to

disassociate herself with them if she has any hope of being successful.

[R B Garr]

18. Exactly.

[dansolo]

15. There is another possibility

Someone associated with her was spouting off. If she was smart she would disassociate herself from people who are trying to piggyback onto her popularity to further their own agendas.

[Eric J in MN]

21. It was an anonymous source so she doesn't know who. NT

NT

[dansolo]

25. I didn't say she knew

I believe that someone felt like they were speaking for her, without actually consulting with her.

[Maven]

16. Politico is a trash gossip rag masquerading as a news source

And they love nothing more than to stir up rumors and innuendo about Democrats.

There's a reason that Charlie Pierce calls it "Tiger Beat on the Potomac".

[aikoaiko]

17. Politico can do good work, but they also know what they have to do to get the clicks.

Politico is masterful at stirring the shit among the left.

Rawstory too, but they were never really respectable.

[NewJeffCT]

19. While I've generally been supportive of AOC

I don't see her outright denying what the article was stating.

[Eric J in MN]

22. AOC can't say she definitely won't support

...a primary challenger to Hakeem Jeffries.

Maybe someone wonderful will primary him.

[NewJeffCT]

23. Jeffries is pretty good already

maybe not as liberal as AOC, but definitely among the liberal wing of the party. He's young, smart, charismatic and passionate as well as supposedly being groomed to replace Pelosi down the road. Seems a waste of time to primary him instead of somebody like a Tim Ryan (#128) or Seth Moulton (#145)

Progressive Punch has Jeffries at #36 in the Democratic Caucus, just ahead of #37 Maxine Waters, out of over 190 House Democrats.

Also, the article said they had already recruited somebody to challenge Jeffries. And, as I stated above, she did not deny what was in the article.

[Eric J in MN]

24. Thanks for pointing out that the article

...says she already recruited someone.

She could directly deny that if it’s false. But she didn’t.

[Cha]

27. Exactly..

Link to tweet

[Tavarious Jackson]

26. She didn't deny it..

All she did is complain about unnamed sources like Trump does.

[Autumn]

28. Wrong, in a continuing tweet she posted that it was the second article by Politico

about her that contained false information. Sounds like a denial to me.

Link to tweet

For the record, this is the second @politico article about me in a short period of time with *0* named sources to back claims containing false information.

Their articles are printed + distributed to **Congressional offices** - w/ no named sources.

It’s really unfortunate.