Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Spells Out Trump Camp’s ‘Big Error’ At NYC ‘Hate Rally’ | EUROtoday

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) slammed Donald Trump’s marketing campaign for making an attempt to distance itself from a few of the excessive rhetoric spewed on the Republican nominee’s New York City rally and mentioned “they’re just realizing that they might have made a big error by saying out loud what they’re thinking.”

“This was a hate rally,” Ocasio-Cortez mentioned on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday. “I think it’s very important for people to understand that these are mini Jan. 6 rallies.”

She mentioned Trump’s rallies are meant to “prime an electorate into rejecting the results of an election if it doesn’t go the way that they want.”

“And that’s what they’re doing when they are inciting violence and hatred against Latinos, against black Americans, against Americans who don’t have children,” she mentioned.

The rally was crammed with anti-immigrant bigotry from Trump and different audio system, bringing the trademark fearmongering of his marketing campaign to a fever pitch almost 4 years after his supporters laid siege to the U.S. Capitol after consuming his lies a couple of stolen election.

“This was a hate rally. This was not just a presidential rally, this was not just a campaign rally. I think it’s important for people to understand these are mini January 6 rallies, these are mini Stop the Steal rallies.” –@aoc @repaoc on Trump’s New York City rally pic.twitter.com/c57RXnVo3d

— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) October 28, 2024

Ocasio-Cortez mentioned the Trump marketing campaign is scrambling to attempt to “blame this rhetoric on a so-called comedian” after Sunday’s rally.

Right-wing comic Tony Hinchcliffe delivered a collection of deeply racist strains forward of Trump’s look at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, together with one the place he known as Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”

A Trump marketing campaign adviser later mentioned that joke “does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.”

Ocasio-Cortez dismissed the excuse. “This is not a comedian. This is the Trump campaign. They invited this rhetoric on their stage for a reason.”

“It was vetted, and they knew exactly who was going to say what before they went on,” she added, accusing the Republican’s marketing campaign of backtracking as a result of tens of hundreds of Puerto Ricans dwell in swing states and swing seat districts of the House.

“They’re just realizing that they might have made a big error by saying out loud what they’re thinking,” she mentioned.

The Trump marketing campaign continued its cleanup on Monday morning, with spokesperson Karoline Leavitt becoming a member of “Fox & Friends” to criticize the media for selecting up one “joke in poor taste.” The racist joke was criticized even by a few of Trump’s GOP allies in Congress.

Hinchcliffe had defended himself in opposition to backlash on social media Sunday evening, insisting the joke wasn’t racist and accusing Democrats of getting no humorousness. “I love Puerto Rico and vacation there. I made fun of everyone,” he posted.

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Ocasio-Cortez responded to that tweet to advise, “you don’t ‘love Puerto Rico.’ You like drinking piña coladas. There’s a difference.”


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