FiveThirtyEight editor-in-chief Nate Silver tweeted Tuesday night that Republican criticism of incoming Dem Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stems mostly from her “race and gender.”
Responding to another tweet about how Republicans were more fixated on the 28-year-old congresswoman-elect than the White House showdown between President Trump and top congressional Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, Silver wrote:
“There are lots of reasons Ocasio-Cortez drives certain Republicans crazy, foremost among them her race and gender. But it’s also that she’s quintessentially a New Yorker and DC political culture is formal and prudish when NYC mostly isn’t those things.”