Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has not walked back her suggestion that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a racist, contrary to what you may have read today. Rather, the freshman congresswoman has merely reworded her original attack so that it now includes more weasel words.

“It’s really just pointing out the pattern, right? We’re not talking about just progressives, it’s singling out four individuals,” Ocasio-Cortez told CNN’s Manu Raju.

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