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   WASHINGTON — NY Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez clapped back at   
   fellow Democratic lawmaker Rep. Joe Manchin of West Virginia   
   after he said he did not support defunding the police — tweeting   
   an image of her glowering at him at the State of the Union.   
      
   The Bronx-born socialist expressed her displeasure on Thursday   
   at an earlier tweet from Manchin, a centrist, who attacked the   
   party’s noisy left flank as hand-wringing continues over the   
   party’s poor 2020 showing.   
      
   “Defund the police? Defund, my butt. I’m a proud West Virginia   
   Democrat. We are the party of working men and women. We want to   
   protect Americans’ jobs & healthcare. We do not have some crazy   
   socialist agenda, and we do not believe in defunding the   
   police,” he wrote.   
      
   Ocasio-Cortez’s (D. Bronx) response to her colleague’s tweet   
   notched more than 200,000 likes by Thursday afternoon and   
   prompted progressive group the Sunrise Movement to start a   
   petition to “Defund Joe Manchin’s butt.”   
      
   The Democratic Party is in the throes of a full-blown civil war   
   following last week’s presidential race which Joe Biden won but   
   saw Democrats’ majority in the House eroded and their dreams of   
   recapturing the Senate dashed.   
      
   In a caucus call last week, Rep. Abigail Spanberger [D-Va.], who   
   narrowly won reelection, implored her colleagues to “not ever   
   use the word ‘socialist’ or ‘socialism’ ever again.”   
      
   “We lost good members because of that,” she said.   
      
   Democratic stalwart and Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn [D-S.C.]   
   has also warned about the dangers of “sloganeering” and said   
   calls to “defund the police” had hurt Democratic candidates.   
      
   Meanwhile, New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries reportedly took a   
   veiled shot at his progressive colleagues on another call,   
   quipping: “Do we want to win, do we want to govern, or do we   
   want to be internet celebrities?”   
      
   House Speaker Nancy Pelosi [D. Calif] has avoided entering the   
   fray as rumors swirl that some members of the Democratic caucus   
   want to oust the 80-year-old over their abysmal 2020 showing.   
      
   But the party’s progressive wing, led by Ocasio-Cortez and   
   fellow “Squad” members Reps. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and   
   Ayanna Pressley, have shot back — accusing Democratic leadership   
   of resting on their laurels and failing to organize at the   
   grassroots level.   
      
   In a post-mortem released Tuesday, progressive groups like the   
   Sunrise Movement charged that it was “unforced errors” like   
   Pelosi’s ice-cream stunt at the peak of the pandemic which cost   
   them those half dozen seats.   
      
   “When Democratic leaders make unforced errors like showing off   
   two sub-zero freezers full of ice cream on national television   
   or cozy up with Wall Street executives and corporate lobbyists   
   while Trump tells voters we are the party of the swamp, it is   
   not surprising that we lose,” they wrote.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2020/11/12/aoc-fumes-over-rep-joe-manchins-   
   crazy-socialist-agenda-tweet/   
      
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