AOC addresses confrontation with Ted Yoho: ‘This is not new. And that is the problem’

Published July 23, 2020 10:54am ET



Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to the House floor on Thursday morning to address the clash she had with a Republican member of Congress.

The freshman congresswoman from New York said she was not “deeply hurt or offended” by the comments made by Republican Rep. Ted Yoho, but she noted that she views the incident as being part of a pattern in which men “dehumanize” women through power.

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