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| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |
Politico reported how the rising star of the party was working to take down fellow New York Representative Hakeem Jeffries, who has just been elected House Democrat caucus chairman.
The outlet reported how Ocasio-Cortez had recruited an African-American woman to run against Jeffries.
Anonymous sources told Politico that Jeffries is considered too conservative for the far-left group Justice Democrats, which is looking to pit primary candidates against moderate Democrats in future elections.
But Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that the story was an example of “gossip that masquerades as ‘reporting.’"
One disappointment about DC is the gossip that masquerades as “reporting.”— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) December 18, 2018
This story has:
- Not a SINGLE named or verifiable source
- Only ONE on-the-record comment, which is a denial.
My dad had a name for junk articles like this:
“Birdcage lining.”
https://t.co/kIBMM2eiWb
Newsweek reports she followed up her tweet by claiming that it was “the second @politico article about me in a short period of time with zero named sources to back claims containing false information.”
However, Politico’s vice president of marketing and communications, Brad Dayspring, defended the article.
He told Fox News: “It’s hard to know what the criticism of the piece is, since the congresswoman-elect doesn’t specify (nor has she or anyone from her staff asked for a correction). We stand by our reporting.”
Ocasio-Cortez unseated House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley in a primary earlier this year. Last week, she said in a video conference call how she backed a national campaign to mount primaries against incumbent Democrats, with a view to moving the party to the left.
However, her spokesman Corbin Trent denied she had recruited a candidate to challenge Jeffries, but said that allies had been let down by Jeffries during the leadership election.
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