(Politico) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other House Democrats are jumping to the defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar as she faces yet another wave of conservative attacks for her recent remarks on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
“We are getting to the level where this is an incitement of violence against progressive women of color,” Ocasio-Cortez told reporters at the House Democratic retreat here Thursday.
“And if they can’t figure out how to get it back to policy we need to call it out for what it is. Because this is not normal, and this is not a normal level of political debate or rhetoric.”
The Minnesota Democrat has come under fire this week for describing Sept. 11, 2001, as a day when “some people did something,” as she described how that act of terrorism contributed to the rise in Islamophobia globally.
