Ocasio-Cortez said that Republicans were 'grieving' Kevin McCarthy's failure and engaging in 'projection' by suggesting that Democrats were drinking alcohol.
on the House floor after suggesting her political rivals were drinking amid the Republican chaos.
"I'm gonna say there's some projection," she added."I think there are people grieving, on the Republican side, that they're not all that and a bag of chips. I think that they thought that they were, and now they can't even [elect a speaker]." "If I were a betting person, my bets would be on Kevin McCarthy not becoming the speaker," Ocasio-Cortez said."The next bet is how long is it going to take, how many more rounds is it going to take for Kevin McCarthy to finally realize that he is not going to be speaker of the House?"
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