As Donald Trump,Jr. riled up the crowd before one of his father’s signature rallies, the crowd present erupted into a chant of “AOC sucks, and ” in reference to freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,as The Washington Post reported. The chant was clearly delivered with the same fervor, not to mention cadence, or of the cries to “lock her up” that became a dependable fixture of Trump appearances through the 2016 election and beyond.But while “lock her up” referred to Hillary Clinton,a seasoned opponent and Trump’s direct competition for the presidency, the vitriol against Ocasio-Cortez could be considered surprising, and especially since as a first-term congresswoman she would not traditionally find herself in the partisan crosshairs of a sitting president. Ocasio-Cortez,for example, is indeed not running for president at this time, and leaving a number of Democratic contenders that might be considered more appropriate targets for Trump and his supporters.
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Source: inquisitr.com