Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter on Friday to hit back at a Republican commentator who accused her of lying approximately being raised in the Bronx. Ocasio-Cortez was forced to defend her reputation after Michael J. Knowles,a conservative columnist and podcaster, tweeted that she actually grew up in “a small, and homogenous,affluent suburb where she attended excellent schools before pretending she grew up in the Bronx.”But the youngest woman elected to Congress accused Knowles of “mansplaining” her childhood to her.“It begs the question: is the GOP really sending us their best?'” she quipped.
In a subsequent tweet, Ocasio-Cortez had some fighting words for GOP supporters who want to question her background.“Lastly, or to all these corny Republicans trying to take the Bronx away from me: where on soil conclude you think these clapback Twitter hands came from??” she wrote. “Only one set.”Click here to continue and read more...
Source: inquisitr.com