That comment echoes what Pelosi said of AOC (and her closest allies, including Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts) in an April interview with USA Today. "While there are people who have a large number of Twitter followers, what's important is that we have large numbers of votes on the floor of the House," Pelosi said. [...]
Take climate change. In an interview with Politico earlier this year, Pelosi referred to it as her "flagship issue." In forming the select committee aimed at considering the best possible legislative solution to the crisis, Pelosi said this: "I want everybody to be in on the act because this is deadly serious." [...]
And that's part of the broader issue here: Pelosi bristles at the idea that she and AOC are on some sort of equal plane because the New York congresswoman has almost 5 million Twitter followers. That's all well and good to Pelosi, but is nothing when compared to serving as the Speaker of the House (and the first woman to hold that role to boot)!
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