Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has narrowly surpassed fellow Democrat and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in her Twitter following, with almost 1.9 million followers.
Ocasio-Cortez now has 1,884,235 million followers, compared with Pelosi’s 1,852,397 million. Other freshman congresswomen, such as Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., lag far behind Ocasio-Cortez, with a comparatively small 370,000 and 183,000 followers, respectively.
Ocasio-Cortez trended on the social media platform on Thursday after now-deleted account “AnonymousQ” shared a video of the congresswoman from her Boston University days dancing like the students who let loose in the movie “The Breakfast Club.”
“Here is America’s favorite commie know-it-all acting like the clueless nitwit she is,” AnonymousQ had captioned the tweet. The video first gained popularity among the populist right and followers of the “QAnon” conspiracy theory. But it soon went viral as many jumped to Ocasio-Cortez’s defense.
In response, Ocasio-Cortez released her own video Friday, which is now the best-performing tweet on her account in the last seven days.
“I hear the GOP thinks women dancing are scandalous,” she captioned her tweet, in which she dances in front of her office in the Capitol building. “Wait till they find out Congresswomen dance too!”
I hear the GOP thinks women dancing are scandalous.
Wait till they find out Congresswomen dance too! ??
Have a great weekend everyone 🙂 pic.twitter.com/9y6ALOw4F6
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 4, 2019
The video has since gained over 100,000 shares and garnered almost 500,000 likes.
As for veteran politician Pelosi, her best performing tweet of the week has been a response to Trump’s tweet on the government shutdown.
.@realDonaldTrump has given Democrats a great opportunity to show how we will govern responsibly & quickly pass our plan to end the irresponsible #TrumpShutdown – just the first sign of things to come in our new Democratic Majority committed to working #ForThePeople. https://t.co/CGl1euCotB
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) January 1, 2019
It has a little over 13,500 retweets and almost 54,000 likes.
