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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said chaos in the Republican Party over the failure to elect a House speaker showed that the Squad, the group of progressive Democrats she’s a member of, is reasonable in comparison.
Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat and the most prominent member of the group, was commenting on the dysfunction in the GOP after a third day of voting in which Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the party’s House speaker candidate, failed to gain the 218 votes required to be elected to the role.
“I think, whether you’re Democrat, Republican or independent, what this whole episode really indicates and shows us is, again, just how bad faith and … substance-less the argument and accusation is that progressives are, are just as bad as, as these insurrectionists Republicans,” Ocasio-Cortez told The Independent.
