‘You nearly experienced me murdered’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Thursday accused Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, of “making an attempt to get me killed” by complicated the election success in the direct up to the Capitol riot and demanded that he resign.
The progressive lawmaker criticized Cruz soon after he reported he agreed with her connect with for an investigation into why individual trading application Robinhood stopped making it possible for users to obtain stocks which includes GameStop.
“I am content to operate with Republicans on this concern exactly where there is prevalent ground, but you pretty much experienced me murdered 3 months in the past so you can sit this one particular out. Delighted to get the job done w/ practically any other GOP that aren’t making an attempt to get me killed. In the meantime if you want to assistance, you can resign,” she informed Cruz in a tweet.
Cruz and Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., have faced significant scrutiny in excess of their efforts to contest the congressional tally of the Electoral College votes, bolstering then-President Donald Trump’s phony claims that the election had been “stolen” from him. A group of Senate Democrats previous week filed an ethics criticism in opposition to the two Republican senators contacting for an investigation to establish whether or not they coordinated with the organizers of the professional-Trump rally that preceded theJan. 6 assault.
The two Cruz and Hawley have denied inciting the violence that broke out all through the electoral vote count, when a mob of professional-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol. Ocasio-Cortez, a repeated target of suitable-wing vitriol, has said she had a “very near encounter the place I thought I was going to die” during the riot. A person of the folks charged in the riot allegedly threatened to “assassinate” her.
Cruz, who’s stated Trump “bears some responsibility” for the riot, has not acknowledged any himself, Ocasio-Cortez mentioned.
“When you conveniently talk about ‘moving on,’ a next Capitol law enforcement officer shed their lifestyle yesterday in the nevertheless-raging aftermath of the attacks you had a job in. This is not a joke. We need to have accountability, and that involves a new Senator from Texas. You have not even apologized for the significant physical + psychological hurt you contributed to from Capitol Law enforcement & custodial staff to your own fellow customers of Congress,” she wrote in yet another pair of tweets, urging Cruz, who has 8 million much less Twitter followers than her, to “get off my timeline & end clout-chasing.”
Questioned about her reviews, Cruz advised reporters, “There’s a lot of partisan anger and rage on the Democratic aspect. It really is, it can be not wholesome for our nation, it can be undoubtedly not conducive of therapeutic or unity, but every person has to make your mind up how they want to interact with other people.”
Ocasio-Cortez mocked his comments on Twitter afterward. “What does he believe the rational reaction to his lies must be? A hug? Probably there is anger bc his steps deserve accountability,” she wrote.
The ideological opposites had labored together just before, partnering in 2019 to do the job on lobbying reforms.
Cruz, who elevated funds off of his electoral vote depend objections, has insisted he wasn’t making an attempt to obstacle the benefits of the election and did not incite any violence. “Debating a dilemma of constitutional regulation on the floor of the Senate is the antithesis of hoping to solve conflicts by violent terrorist assault,” he stated previously this thirty day period.
Hawley also informed St. Louis radio station KMOX that he hadn’t been making an attempt to overturn the election final results.
“I by no means mentioned that the target was to overturn the election,” Hawley claimed Thursday. “That was in no way the level and that was by no means attainable.”
But questioned in a Fox News job interview on Jan. 4 if Trump would continue to be president on Jan. 20, Hawley mentioned “that depends on what takes place on Wednesday. Which is why we have the debate.”
Haley Talbot contributed.
