AOC: Donald Trump is ‘afraid of strong women,’ and I would worry if he agreed with me

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez issued a new attack on Donald Trump in an interview that will air Monday evening, claiming the president is ‘afraid of strong women.’

The freshman representative, in a sit-down Noticias Telemundo interview, said she would be concerned if the president agreed with any of her ideas because he’s ‘racist’ and afraid of ‘Latina women.’

‘He’s a racist and he’s anti-immigrants, but more than that, his administration is very corrupt,’ Ocasio-cortez said in an interview conducted in Spanish. ‘I think he has a track record of – I think he’s afraid of women, of strong women, of Latina women. It’s very antithetic, his values.’

The progressive Puerto Rican congresswoman is one of the president’s most harsh, vocal critics – and she said she’s OK with the clash, suggesting it means she’s doing something right.

‘I think that if the president is calling me crazy, that’s good,’ Ocasio-Cortez said in a full-Spanish interview with Telemundo 

‘I think that if the president is calling me crazy, that’s good. It’d be a problem if he said he agreed with me, because he has a lot of issues,’ she said in the interview, which will air and become available on social media 6:30 p.m. Monday evening.

Ocasio-Cortez unseated 10-term incumbent Democrat Joe Crowley in the 2018 midterm elections for New York’s 14th district, which includes parts of two New York City boroughs: the Bronx and Queens.

Before running for Congress, AOC, which she has become known as to both supporters and critics, was an organizer for Democratic socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in his unsuccessful 2016 presidential primary run against Hillary Clinton.

In joining Telemundo for the interview in Las Vegas, Nevada, Ocasio-Cortez was focusing on her endorsement of Sanders for president in 2020.

She joined the independent senator for a rally in Venice Beach on the tail end of a trip to Los Angeles, California where seven candidates participated in the sixth Democratic primary debate Thursday night, which featured the smallest stage yet.

Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Bernie Sanders in his 2020 presidential bid. She said in the interview that Sanders winning is even more important than Donald Trump losing reelection

‘What’s more important? For Trump to lose or for Bernie to win?’ Guadalupe Venegas, who interviewed Ocasio-Cortez in Spanish, asked.

‘For Bernie to win,’ she asserted. ‘The president was elected for a reason. I might not agree with those reasons, but there was a lack of opportunities, economic issues, healthcare issues, education issues, and I think that’s why he was elected. It was a reaction.’

Even though she made clear she believes Sanders is the right person for the job, Ocasio-Cortez said she would support whichever Democrat earned the Party’s nomination.

‘This fight belongs to all of us. This is about a movement. That’s why I chose to back Senator Sanders. He knows and understands that this campaign isn’t about one person. It’s about a movement of American working families and that can only happen with everyone on board,’ she said.

‘I think we have good candidates in the primary,’ Ocasio-Cortez continued, ‘but I think that we have to support whoever wins the ticket, because we need to get this president out of the Oval Office.’

Trump and Ocasio-Cortez have gotten into public spats on Twitter, but have never actually interacted in person.

Over the summer, Trump repeatedly attacked Ocasio-Cortez and three other minority freshmen congresswomen who made up the so-called ‘squad’: Representatives Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley.

While Ocasio-Cortez, Omar and Tlaib joined forces to endorse Sanders, a self proclaimed Democratic socialist, Pressley is instead supporting progressive Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.