AOC reveals Nancy Mace 'pretty wildly disliked even by her GOP colleagues'

21 Nov 2024, 23:16 by https://www.facebook.com/17108852506 · AlterNet

WASHINGTON, DC - March 13, 2024: U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) walks out of the U.S. Capitol. Image via Shutterstock.
Maya Boddie
November 21, 2024Media

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) blasted Republican colleague Rep. Nancy Mace (SC) on Thursday via social media after a legal expert called the South Carolina lawmaker is "unhinged."

Alejandra Caraballo, a civil rights attorney and clinical instructor at the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic, wrote via social media: "Does somebody need to do a wellness check on Nancy Mace? She is absolutely unhinged. She continues to tweet about trans people and bathrooms."

After the South Carolina congresswoman railed against incoming Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) — who became the first openly transgender member of Congress this month — on social media earlier this week, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) enforced a ban on transgender women using women’s restrooms in the United States Capitol.

AOC replied to Caraballo's post, writing: [For what it's worth] she is pretty widely disliked even by her GOP colleagues. She’s all over the place. Messy. Fights with them too. This is the most attention she has gotten in ages despite her many attempts, hence the differences in tack some have taken in this whole brouhaha. She really craves it. It’s weird."

Mother Jones reported on Tuesday, McBride referred to Mace's actions as "manufacturing culture wars," adding, "indeed, an apt way to describe the transphobic paranoia Mace and supporting members in the GOP appears to be stoking with this resolution—an especially ironic development given that Democrats have been chastised for having been too concerned with trans issues since losing the election."