Ocasio Cortez Election Results
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday vehemently rejected a call by Sen. Ted Cruz for lawmakers and Americans to put the current 'anger and division behind us,' 24 hours after the senator himself baselessly contested the presidential election results—an action which helped incite a mob of thousands to storm the Capitol building in what has been characterized as an insurrection.
As a political newcomer, Ocasio-Cortez was not expected to defeat Crowley in the primary election. As the results were tabulated, the race drew national recognition when it became clear that Ocasio-Cortez would win over Crowley, the Democratic Caucus Chairman and a 10-term incumbent. ‘Serving NY-14 and fighting for working class families in Congress has been the greatest honor’ tweets Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as early results give her an unassailable lead.
4 winners and 2 losers from the 2018 midterm elections. Ocasio-Cortez first stunned many in June when she unseated Crowley — a top leader among House Democrats — by running a campaign.
Cruz and other lawmakers who challenged the results 'must resign,' the New York Democrat tweeted. 'If you do not, the Senate should move for your expulsion.'
Sen. Cruz, you must accept responsibility for how your craven, self-serving actions contributed to the deaths of four people yesterday. And how you fundraised off this riot.
Both you and Senator Hawley must resign. If you do not, the Senate should move for your expulsion. https://t.co/O2m6T59LYP
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 7, 2021In addition to President Donald Trump's repeated false claims that the election was 'stolen' from him and that the results in several states were illegitimate, the two months preceding Wednesday's attack on the nation's Capitol—where lawmakers were convening to certify President-elect Joe Biden's victory—were characterized by the refusal of other Republicans in both the House and Senate to accept the results.
Cruz joined with seven other senators including Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Rick Scott of Florida to vote to overturn the election results on Wednesday night, hours after the insurrection was brought to an end. One hundred and thirty nine Republican House members also voted against certifying the election results despite dozens of federal and state court rulings which have rejected Trump's and other GOP members' challenges.
Amid the challenge, Ocasio-Cortez noted, Trump supporters who believe that Biden's victory is fraudulent—as more than three-quarters of Republican voters now do, according to a recent poll—descended on the Capitol building, forcing lawmakers and journalists to go into hiding while barricades were breached, windows broken, and offices vandalized in an assault that led to the death of four people.
Alexandria Ocasio-cortez
'Sen. Cruz, you must accept responsibility for how your craven, self-serving actions contributed to the deaths of four people yesterday,' Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.
Get our best delivered to your inbox.
Government watchdog Public Citizen echoed Ocasio-Cortez's rejection of Cruz's statement, in which he defended his decision to repeatedly challenge the 'integrity' of the election—found by the Trump-created Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to be 'the most secure in American history'—while also claiming to want a 'peaceful and orderly transition of power.'
'No turning the page,' tweeted the organization, calling for immediate 'accountability' for those who stoked the flames that led to Wednesday's violence.
No 'turning the page.' No abstract 'healing.' Accountability. Immediately.
— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) January 7, 2021In addition to calling for the resignations of Cruz and Hawley, who was the first senator to announce he would challenge the election results, Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday joined Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) in calling for the expulsion of other lawmakers who objected to certifying the election. On Thursday, Reps. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) joined the call.
'The Republican members of Congress who incited the attempted coup our Capitol should be expelled from Congress,' tweeted Bowman.
The Republican members of Congress who incited the attempted coup our Capitol should be expelled from Congress.
I’m joining my colleagues @CoriBush, @AOC, @IlhanMN, and more to call for their expulsion.
Please sign below if you’re with us:https://t.co/yFwEoXQm4z
The congressman urged supporters to sign a petition supporting the resolution, which has garnered more than 141,000 signatures so far.
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she and other elected officials “narrowly escaped death” last week when a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed into the U.S. Capitol, noting that she had additional concerns her own colleagues would put her at risk.
In an Instagram Live video on Tuesday night, the Democrat said she personally had an encounter, the details of which she said she couldn’t disclose due to security concerns, “where I thought I was going to die.”
She said there was “a sense that something was wrong from the inside” and that she remained fearful even after she was taken to a secure location with other elected officials.
Ocasio-Cortez, who is Hispanic, noted that her fears were heightened because there were white supremacists and other extremists taking part in the mostly white mob.
The second-term representative, whose New York district covers part of Queens and the Bronx, is among the most high-profile elected officials on the political left and a lightning rod for the right and extreme right.
She had strong condemnation for Trump for inciting the riots, as well as members of his administration who have not invoked the 25th Amendment to remove him from office, as well as those who voted to overturn the election results.
Ocasio-Cortez said those who have resigned in the wake of Wednesday were “cowards.”
Ocasio Cortez Election Results Today
“They think that resigning is going to clean that blood of their hands,” she said. “It is always on them.”