Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined Desus Nice on the Daily Show to discuss the House Speaker fiasco.
“Republicans kicked out their speaker, and now they can’t find a new guy to run their group project,” the New York congresswoman quipped. “And they’re all like fighting with each other about it.”
In terms of how it affects the U.S. on a wider scale, Ocasio-Cortez said, “We’ve got a clock ticking on a government shutdown,” adding, “That’s when we start seeing TSA and airports get affected. That’s when people could potentially miss their checks.” While underscoring the impact of the speaker, she also noted: “We need to make sure that we don’t have people like Jim Jordan, or extremists, because whoever takes over the house could potentially put our democracy in danger when it comes to certifying or rec-ertifying, an election.”McCarthy from his leadership position. “It’s not up to Democrats to save Republicans from themselves,” the congresswoman said when asked if she would vote to keep McCarthy as speaker.
When Nice asked Ocasio-Cortez on Monday evening who she would be voting for this time around, she replied, “I’ll be casting my vote for Hakeem Jeffries.”” are taking place that could lead to a “bipartisan governing coalition” to elect a House speaker. “My Republican colleagues have a simple choice. They can either double or triple down on the chaos, dysfunction, and extremism,” he said.
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