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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Thursday accused Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, of 'trying to get me killed' by challenging the election results in the lead up to the Capitol riot and demanded. Ocasio-Cortez was referring to Cruz objecting to the Electoral Vote certification on Jan. During the certification, a group of angry protestors stormed the Capitol building and delayed the process.
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House Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senate Republican Ted Cruz continued their days-long diatribe Saturday, exchanging blows on Twitter as the country comes to grips with the attack on the Capitol this week.
The back-and-forth started after Ocasio-Cortez called on Cruz and GOP Sen. Josh Hawley to resign after pro-Trump supporters mobbed the Capitol Wednesday in an attempt to subvert the Electoral College results.
Hawley and Cruz, along with 11 other Republican senators, previously vowed to object to states like Arizona and Pennsylvania unless an electoral commission was established to conduct a 10-day emergency audit of the states' election processes.
Democrats called foul on the demands which followed the Trump campaign's dozens of lawsuits contesting the election. Those failed to gain any traction in both the Supreme Court and the lower courts.
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'Sen. Cruz, you must accept responsibility for how your craven, self-serving actions contributed to the deaths of four people yesterday,' Ocasio-Cortez tweeted at the lawmaker on Thursday.
'Both you and Senator Hawley must resign. If you do not, the Senate should move for your expulsion,' she added.
Cruz hit back calling the 'squad' member a 'liar.'
'Leading a debate in the Senate on ensuring election integrity is doing our jobs, and it’s in no way responsible for the despicable terrorists who attacked the Capitol yesterday,' Cruz said.
But President-elect Joe Biden echoed lawmakers' frustrations at the anger incited by President Trump and Republican lawmakers who repeatedly claimed widespread fraud, but failed to successfully provide any evidence.
Biden drew a parallel between Cruz and Hawley’s actions to the Nazi Party’s Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels.
'I think the American public has a good clear look at who they are. They're part of the Big Lie,' Biden told reporters Wednesday, following the attacks that resulted in five dead, including a Capitol Police officer.
'Goebbels [said] in the Great Lie -- you keep repeating the lie, repeating the lie.'
'By the way, Trump said that before he ran. 'If you say it enough, I'm going to convince you. I'll say it enough: The press is bad, the press is bad, the press is bad, the press is bad'.'
'If he's the only one saying it, it's one thing. But the acolytes that follow him are as responsible as he is,' the president-elect continued. 'There are decent people out there who actually believe these lies, because they've heard it again and again.'
Cruz took to Twitter to respond to Biden’s comparison and said, 'President-elect Biden’s choice to call his political opponents literal Nazis does nothing to bring us together or promote healing.'
Ocasio-Cortez, recently re-elected, pounced on Cruz’s tweet and tweeted Saturday, 'They wore Auschwitz shirts, erected gallows, and tried to hang the Vice President.'
'Your continued excusal and denial of Wednesday’s Neo-Nazi presence is abhorrent and dangerous,' she added.
Cruz then called Ocasio-Cortez an 'epic' hypocrite, and claimed she and fellow Democratic lawmakers, are 'anti-Israel pals' who 'blocked a resolution condemning antisemitism—which I passed unanimously in the Senate.'
But the senator’s latest Twitter blow wasn’t quite accurate, and she told the Texas Republican to 'Pull the Clerk record.'
'I proudly voted for the resolution against antisemitism you cite.'
Biden has not directly called for the resignation of Hawley and Cruz, saying it should be up to the voters to decide. But Democrats in the Senate have joined the calls for the GOP senators' resignations.
Alaskan Sen. Lisa Murkowski became the first Republican senator to call for Trump’s resignation, joining dozens lawmakers from both sides of the isle in the House, along with Senate Democrats.
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The feud between New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, continues to play out on Twitter, with the latest blow coming from the left Thursday.
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In an unusual attempt at unity, Cruz retweeted a message from Ocasio-Cortez regarding the latest development in the GameStop saga that has plagued Wall Street this week, creeping it’s way into Washington, D.C.
Ocasio-Cortez condemned the online trading platform Robinhood, after it restricted users on its app from trading GameStop shares, after the failing retailer saw an unprecedented uptick in its stock this week.
In an attempt to curb trading by small investors -- who some Wall Street veterans fear could destroy hedge funds -- Robinhood took steps to prevent its users from being able to trade freely and reversed the upward trend in GameStop stock value Thursday.
'This is unacceptable,' Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter. 'We now need to know more about [Robinhood’s] decision to block retail investors from purchasing stock while hedge funds are freely able to trade the stock as they see fit.'
Cruz threw his support behind the Democrat, retweeting the message and simply stating, 'Fully agree.'
But instead of acknowledging the rare occasion the two congressional lawmakers could actually find themselves in agreement on an issue, Ocasio-Cortez rebuffed the senator’s support, diverting the conversation to the attack on the U.S. Capitol earlier this month.
'I am happy to work with Republicans on this issue where there’s common ground, but you almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago so you can sit this one out,' Ocasio-Cortez shot back at Cruz.
'Happy to work w/ almost any other GOP that aren’t trying to get me killed. In the meantime if you want to help, you can resign,' she added.
The New York Democrat has held Cruz and other GOP lawmakers accountable for the breach on the U.S. Capitol after they propagated debunked allegations against the integrity of the 2020 presidential election.
The attack happened as lawmakers in the House and Senate separated to review and vote on the Electoral College results for states that some GOP lawmakers, including Cruz, objected to.
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Videos that surfaced during and after the attack showed some of the pro-Trump supporters specifically targeting certain Democrats like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Ocasio-Cortez.
The New York Democrat has repeatedly called for Cruz’s resignation from office.