AOC blasts New York Times editor for questioning whether Omar and Tlaib ‘are from the Midwest’

“Saying @RashidaTlaib (D-Detroit) and @IlhanMN (D-Minneapolis) are from the Midwest is like saying @RepLloydDoggett (D-Austin) is from Texas or @repjohnlewis (D-Atlanta) is from the Deep South. C’mon,” Weisman said in the early hours of Wednesday on Twitter.

“Also, I grew up in Atlanta. John Lewis was my congressman. But my first jobs were with the Marietta Daily Journal. So please don’t tell me that Atlanta is synonymous with Georgia. It isn’t. Also it take nothing away from @IlhanMN to say the message that my fan-girl in-law loves on Lake Harrriett doesn’t work with my in-laws in Plymouth and Shoreview.”

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Weisman, the newspaper’s deputy Washington editor, later deleted the tweets.

Ocasio-Cortez’s accusation that Weisman used Trump talking points on race came as she repeatedly accused Trump of being a racist.

“You’re right, Mr. President – you don’t have a racist bone in your body. You have a racist mind in your head, and a racist heart in your chest,” Ocasio-Cortez told Trump earlier this month after he told her to “go back” to her home country.

Days later she said the president was “an impulsive racist.”

Weisman’s critique of Tlaib and Omar was in response to Waleed Shahid, a former campaign strategist for Ocasio-Cortez, slamming former Sen. Claire McCaskill for saying: “Free stuff from the government does not play well in the Midwest.”

“@RashidaTlaib + @IlhanMN are also from the Midwest,” Shahid said on Twitter. “Medicare and Social Security are both technically ‘free stuff’ and they play very well.”

Omar, 37, also responded to Weisman’s belief that she did not represent the Midwest, saying: “this will certainly be news to people of Minnesota’s 5th District!”