Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein slammed Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a socialist from New York. Attacked He accused Stein of undermining the Democratic Party.
Ocasio-Cortez slammed Stein in an Instagram story on Sunday, calling the candidate inauthentic.
“That reads as predatory. Sorry, but I'm just saying.”
“This is a bit of a provocative story, but I have an idea,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
“When you run for office year after year and the party isn't growing, isn't winning more city seats, more subdivision seats, more state constituencies, that's bad leadership. And that's what pisses me off,” she continued.
“You come out once every four years to talk to people who are understandably angry, and you're not serious,” Ocasio-Cortez concluded. “To me, it doesn't seem genuine. It seems predatory. Sorry, I'm just saying that.”
Stein responded on social media on Tuesday with his own video.
“I really appreciate her genuine concern about green power. Clearly, AOC is an attack dog. today Democrats are scared, and they should be!,” Gill said.
“Who wants to support genocide? Who wants to vote for genocide?” she added.
She also slammed Ocasio-Cortez, who claimed in her Democratic National Convention speech that Harris was working “tirelessly” for a ceasefire despite the Biden administration funding Israel's war with Hamas.
“Imagine being this disrespectful to Jill Stein. AOC should be truly embarrassed.”
Ocasio-Cortez has been roundly condemned by many on the far left, who see it as a betrayal of the progressive cause.
“AOC called Jill Stein 'predatory' even though she took donations, campaigned as a progressive, lied to voters, stopped talking about the Green New Deal, and endorsed Joe Biden, a leading sponsor of genocide. What terrible gaslighting.” read One popular tweet.
“So this sociopath is claiming Jill Stein can't be trusted because she didn't rise to power by slipping into the enemy camp like AOC. So treason and inaction is the same as activism? Seriously, you should just go away buddy.” Reply An account that identifies as anti-capitalist.
“She has no idea what she's talking about. It's a real shame for AOC to be so disrespectful to Jill Stein.” said Another critic.
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