Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., continues to catch major is backlash after a series of gaffes and stumbles at the recent Munich Security Conference that left even liberal commentators cringing.
The overseas appearance, considered her first big test as she’s floated as a nominee for president in 2028, consisted of her stumbling through multiple foreign policy questions and botched basic geography in what conservative Matt Whitlock called “an absolute train wreck.”
However, the fallout from AOC’s epic fail in Europe somehow landed her a bizarre endorsement of sorts from a former bigtime Republican who also found himself running for president not so long ago.
Former New Jersey Republican and ex-presidential candidate Gov. Chris Christie predicted that the country will have a “severe reaction” to Trump in 2028 and may even elect AOC as president.
REPORT: Chris Christie predicts that AOC will be the next President of the United States.
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“I hope that severe reaction will demand character and normalcy. Not seen as a philosophical reaction. If we get a philosophical reaction, we’re going to end up with AOC as president, no joke,” Christie said during a “Principles First” event.
“She went to Munich because she’s thinking in her head ‘I want to be president.’ And who can blame her? She’s watching Trump. The standard for being president has diminished fairly significantly.”
Not exactly a glowing “endorsement”, but certainly a fair warning.
The socialist congresswoman remains the fourth-highest-polling contender three years out from the 2028 Democratic presidential race, according to the latest RealClearPolitics aggregate of polls.
AOC spent the early part of this week firing back at critics of her recent gaffe-filled appearance in Germany, contending it was proof she thinks before she speaks.
Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was noticeably hoarse as she responded to the blowback she received after stammering over a question about how the US should respond to a hypothetical Chinese invasion of Taiwan is due to the public being conditioned to President Trump’s impulsiveness.
During her speech she completely froze for 20 seconds before delivering what critics called “word salad.”
“This is, of course, a, a very long-standing, policy of the United States, and I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point, and we want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation and for that question to even arise,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
But AOC maintained her comments were completely accurate.
“If you think I don’t understand foreign policy because out of hours of discourse about international affairs, I pause to think about one of the most sensitive geopolitical issues that currently exists on Earth,” she said in an Instagram story.
“I’m afraid the issue’s not my understanding but rather the problem is perhaps you’ve gotten adjusted to a president that never thinks before he speaks and doesn’t care about the implications of his words before he speaks on matters like these.”
However, critics are still talking about AOC’s glaring error came when she criticized President Donald Trump’s administration’s capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.
“That doesn’t mean that we can kidnap a head of state and engage in acts of war just because the nation is below the equator,” she said.
Venezuela is not below the equator. The South American country sits entirely in the Northern Hemisphere.
“Um, you know, I think that this is such a, you know, I think that this is, this is of course a very longstanding policy of the United States,” the congresswoman said in response to a question from moderator Francine Lacqua of Bloomberg TV.
“What we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point.”
Trump later chimed in that her comments were “career-ending.”
“There was one young, attractive woman. She was unable to answer questions and she didn’t do so well like JD [Vance] did in college,” Trump said Thursday.
“When you see the representatives there like Gavin Newscum, he didn’t know what he was doing. He didn’t know why he was there. Or AOC,” Trump said. “She was unable to answer a simple question.”
“She could have said, ‘Well, I’m studying it and I’ll report back to you next week.’ You can get away with that, but she just went, ‘uhh, uhh,’” he said.
“I think it could be a career-ending answer because for 25 years anybody running against her is going to use that little piece,” Trump said. “It was not good.”