Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently renewed her ongoing Twitter feud with Sen. Joe Manchin after the senator referred to the far-left New York House member as a “young lady” while responding to her criticism.
After AOC took to Twitter to accuse Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, of having “weekly huddles with Exxon” and being “one of many senators who gives lobbyists their pen to write so-called bipartisan fossil fuels bills,” Manchin denied her charges in an interview Sunday with CNN.
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“I keep my door open for everybody, it’s totally false,” Manchin said, adding, “And those types of superlatives, it’s just awful. Continue to divide, divide, divide. I don’t know that young lady that well. I really don’t. I have met her one time, I think, between sets here. But that’s it. So we have not had any conversations. She’s just speculating and saying things because she wants to.”
Without naming Manchin again, AOC tweeted, “I usually know my questions of power are getting somewhere when the powerful stop referring to me as “Congresswoman” and start referring to me as “young lady” instead,” followed by a winking emoji.
Imagine if every time someone referred to someone as “young lady” they were ask responded to by being addressed with their age and gender? They’d be pretty upset if one responded with “the old man,” right? Why this kind of weird, patronizing behavior is so accepted is beyond me!
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 13, 2021
In another tweet, she called it “weird, patronizing behavior.”
Manchin is a frequent target of AOC on Twitter. The senator once quipped that the congresswoman was “more active on Twitter” than in Congress.
But the “young lady” feud is just the latest example of the progressive Democrat taking aim at the centrist.
In November, Manchin dismissed proposals to “defund the police,” saying “defund, my butt.”
Defund the police? Defund, my butt. I’m a proud West Virginia Democrat. We are the party of working men and women. We want to protect Americans’ jobs & healthcare. We do not have some crazy socialist agenda, and we do not believe in defunding the police. https://t.co/EIFHX5OQ37
— Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen_JoeManchin) November 11, 2020
He further argued Democrats should be the party of “working men and women,” not “some crazy socialist agenda.”
In response, AOC posted a photo of herself glaring at Manchin during a State of the Union address.
In June, AOC re-posted the image, accusing Manchin of attempting “voter suppression” alongside the GOP.
Just thinking about how after this photo ran Wall Street Journal columnists spent more time criticizing me for not smiling enough than asking Manchin precisely what areas of “common ground” he had in mind when he stood up for the GOP.
Turns out voter suppression was one of them! https://t.co/hiMeVNKtss
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 7, 2021
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The New York progressive also criticized Manchin for voting to confirm Jeff Sessions as attorney general under President Donald Trump, calling the former Alabama Senator “openly racist.”
Jeff Sessions was so openly racist that even Reagan couldn’t appoint him.
Manchin voted to confirm him. Sessions then targeted immigrant children for wide-scale human rights abuses w/ family separation.
Yet the 1st Native woman to be Cabinet Sec is where Manchin finds unease? https://t.co/wyki5iE36Y
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 22, 2021
She also said the senator sided with then-President Donald Trump a “majority of the time.”
WVDems set the table for Manchin, who sides with Trump the majority of the time & voted to confirm Jeff Sessions, Rick Perry, Neil Gorsuch and Ben Carson. Tell me again who’s a Democrat?
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 10, 2017
