How AOC ‘alienated’ key Democrats and tried to ‘occupy’ Nancy Pelosi’s office

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has made a name for herself on Capitol Hill as a member of the progressive “Squad,” but a new book details how the liberal Democrat “alienated” key members of her party in Congress.

Ocasio-Cortez has an “irreconcilable contradiction” where she wants to be “all things to all people while leading a political revolution.” Her efforts were on display during an incident where she participated in a sit-in protest at then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) office in 2019, according to excerpts given to the Daily Mail from the new book The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution by journalist Ryan Grim.

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“While somebody like Obama wants to be seen as being all things to all people, Ocasio Cortez actually thinks she can be all things to all people while leading a political revolution,” Grim writes, per the outlet. “She believed she could occupy the Speaker’s office and have Pelosi appreciate it.”

The book also claims that Ocasio-Cortez “alienated” Pelosi and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), the chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, early into her congressional tenure.

The book details how Jayapal told Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff to “keep her staff in line” and says Jayapal complained to others that Ocasio-Cortez had “very little track record of actually organizing,” according to the book.

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Other parts of the book released to the Guardian also detail how the New York Democrat had a rocky relationship with Pelosi.

One instance of the turbulent relationship happened when Ocasio-Cortez mentioned to Pelosi that no one from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had asked how she was able to unseat longtime Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley. Ocasio-Cortez claims in the book that Pelosi “got so mad at me” when discussing how the party should “pay attention and ask questions” when upsets happen to “spot weaknesses.”