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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez deletes her tweet wrongly calling a Democratic congressman an 'older male' Republican

Apr 26, 2019, 06:54 IST

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.Yuri Gripas/Reuters

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  • Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez deleted a Thursday tweet in which she wrongly labeled Rep. John Yarmuth, a Kentucky Democrat, an "older male member" of the Republican party.
  • "GOP: Let's pose our older male members next to cardboard cutouts of young female legislators," Ocasio-Cortez wrote, retweeting an image of Yarmuth standing beside a cut-out of her that was promoted by the Kentucky Republican Party.
  • "I was a Republican 35 years ago, but I think I have become wiser as an older, white, male Democrat," Yarmuth tweeted in response to the episode.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez deleted a Thursday tweet in which she wrongly labeled Rep. John Yarmuth, a Kentucky Democrat, an "older male member" of the Republican party.

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"GOP: Let's pose our older male members next to cardboard cutouts of young female legislators," Ocasio-Cortez wrote, retweeting an image of Yarmuth standing beside a cut-out of her that had been shared by the Republican Party of Kentucky.

Ocasio-Cortez appeared to be attempting to criticize the outsized attention she receives from conservatives.

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Yarmuth, the chair of the House Budget Committee and Kentucky's only Democrat in Washington, recently invited Ocasio-Cortez to his home state after she was disinvited by a Kentucky Republican.

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Republicans were quick to call out Ocasio-Cortez for her mistake.

"We have a message for the woke socialist from New York. This older male member is a Democrat," The National Republican Campaign Committee wrote in a post on its website. "This Democrat is on the budget committee. This budget committee member is the chairman. This chairman needs to find $93 trillion to pay for your asinine Green New Deal."

A spokesperson for Ocasio-Cortez didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Yarmuth responded to the episode on Thursday evening.

"I was a Republican 35 years ago, but I think I have become wiser as an older, white, male Democrat," he tweeted. "I simply wanted everyone to know I welcome @RepAOC in Kentucky, regardless of what old white male Republicans think."

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