Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fires back at Republican who called her 'f---ing bitch:' 'I am someone's daughter too'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has some powerful words for a Republican congressmember who called her some very nasty ones.

Earlier this week, a reporter overheard Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) accost Ocasio-Cortez on the steps of the Capitol over her comments connecting poverty to crime, seemingly calling her a "f---ing bitch" as he walked away. Yoho delivered a quasi-apology on the floor of the House on Wednesday, and on Thursday, Ocasio-Cortez took her turn.

"I do not need Representative Yoho to apologize to me. Clearly, he does not want to," Ocasio-Cortez declared in a House address. "But what I do have issue with is issuing women, or wives and daughters, as shields and excuses," Ocasio-Cortez continued, addressing how Yoho defended himself by saying he has a wife and two daughters.

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"I am two years younger than Mr. Yoho's youngest daughter," Ocasio-Cortez pointed out. "I am someone's daughter too. My father, thankfully, is not alive to see how Mr. Yoho treated his daughter," Ocasio-Cortez said, before sharing that her parents "did not raise me to accept abuse from men."

In his Wednesday address, Yoho said "the offensive name-calling words attributed to me by the press were never spoken to my colleagues and if they were construed that way, I apologize for their misunderstanding."

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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.