FiveThirtyEight founder and election forecaster Nate Silver on Tuesday claimed that many members of the GOP have disdain for Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) because of “her race and gender.”
Ocasio-Cortez, a 29-year-old Hispanic woman, has drawn immense scrutiny and criticism from leading GOP figures and pundits since her campaign to unseat incumbent Rep. Joseph Crowley (D) in a New York primary.
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. https://t.co/maqpsf6ryA
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) December 12, 2018
Silver was responding to a tweet from CNN political analyst Joshua Green, who claimed Ocasio-Cortez was the “big preoccupation” at multiple GOP gatherings this week. – READ MORE