Ocasio-Cortez delivers powerful speech after Republican's sexist remarks

Congresswoman condemned ‘violent language against women’ after Ted Yoho berated her on the House steps on MondayCongresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s outrage over a Republican lawmaker’s verbal assault broadened into an extraordinary moment on the House floor on Thursday as she and other Democrats assailed a sexist culture of “accepting violence and violent language against women” whose adherents include Donald Trump.A day after rejecting an offer of contrition from Republican congressman Ted Yoho for his language during this week’s Capitol steps confrontation, Ocasio-Cortez and more than a dozen colleagues cast the incident as all-too-common behavior by men, including the president and other Republicans. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/23/aoc-speech-video-ted-yoho #alexandria_ocasio-cortez #us_politics #us_news #democrats #republicans #house_of_representatives #nancy_pelosi