Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Her Life Is ‘In Danger’

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believes that her life is in danger and she is terrified to even walk her dog.

In an interview with CNN host Chris Wallace she said that the attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker and California Rep. Nancy Pelosi, made her more concerned.

“I felt that my life has been in danger since the moment that I won my primary election in 2018,” the representative said.

“And it became especially intensified when I was first brought into Congress in 2019,” she said.

“It is a very real dynamic and very unfortunately and tragically we’ve seen political violence play out,” she said.

“When I wake up in the morning, I hesitate to walk my dog. It means when I come home, I have to ask my fiancé to come out to where my car is to walk me just from my car to my front door. It means that there’s just – a general disposition where you kind of feel like there’s almost a static electricity around you. And you’re just always just looking around, your head is just on a swivel, going to a restaurant, walking down the street,” she said.

This week Democrat New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, was defeated in his election by Republican Mike Lawler and he is furious that New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for not helping other Democrats win, the New York Times reported.

“There is a debate in New York right now about the New York Democratic Party, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and some on the left are arguing its leadership is part of the problem here,” Nicholas Fandos of the New York Times on Thursday said to the representative.

“The last time I ran into A.O.C., we were beating her endorsed candidate two to one in a primary, and I didn’t see her one minute of these midterms helping our House majority. So, I’m not sure what kind of advice she has, but I’m sure she’ll be generous with it,” the representative said.

“But let’s be clear, she had almost nothing to do with what turned out to be a historic defense of our majority. Didn’t pay a dollar of dues. Didn’t do anything for our frontline candidates except give them money when they didn’t want it from her,” he said.

“There are other voices who should be heard, especially when suburban voters have clearly rejected the ideas that she’s most associated with, from defunding the police on down,” he said. “She’s an important voice in our politics. But when it comes to passing our agenda through the Congress or standing our ground on the political battlefield, she was nowhere to be found.”

But when Rep. Ocasio-Cortez spoke to Wallace she went wild about talking about both Republicans and Democrats moving to the middle.

“Do people want both parties to move from the fringes, from the extremes back to the center?” the host said.

“I think a lot of people in this country may say yes, but it’s important for us to dig into the substance of what that actually means. As someone who is often, I think, characterized as extreme. I of course, would object to that I do not believe that I am as extreme in the way that Marjorie Taylor Greene on the Republican side is extreme the idea that there is an equating of believing in someone who believes in guaranteed universal health care in the United States was someone who believes that undocumented people should incur physical harm are somehow in the same level of extreme is something that I would object to,” she said.

AOC to Chris Wallace: "As someone who is often, I think, characterized as 'extreme,' I of course would object to that. I do not believe that I am as extreme in the way that Marjorie Taylor Greene on the Republican side is extreme." pic.twitter.com/Y7Uxbq4iNm

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Maloney was defeated by Republican State Assemblyman Mike Lawler in what many are calling a “historic upset.” Lawler, who ran his campaign on fighting back against crime and boosting the economy, defeated Maloney, who has first elected in 2013.

“I think he took it for granted,” Lawler said in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday. “As recently as a month ago he was traveling to Paris, London, and Geneva to raise money for the DCCC. He did not start campaigning seriously in the district until a couple of weeks ago. You have to be able to find a compromise, and you have to be able to work across the aisle.”