Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Blunt Analysis Of Mike Johnson Has Chris Hayes Laughing
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The Democratic lawmaker explained exactly who Republicans are dealing with when it comes to their House speaker.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) delivered a stinging assessment of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) after House Republicans failed this week with their baseless bid to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
“Let’s just call a spade a spade here,” Ocasio-Cortez told MSNBC’s “All In” host Chris Hayes on Wednesday.
“Republicans are dealing with not their first-choice speaker, not their second-choice speaker, not their third-choice speaker. They’re dealing with the speaker that they could get and that they could agree on,” Ocasio-Cortez pointed out, drawing laughter from Hayes.
Watch the exchange here:
“That means an individual that does not have experience in party leadership, that is a relative newcomer when it comes to the [caliber] of member that you’re used to seeing when they typically get the speaker’s gavel,” the lawmaker continued. It means “the experience in vote-counting is not quite up to the standard that we usually see in a speakership.”
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