Yesterday the Congressional Black Caucus went on the attack, going after AOC and her Justice Democrats group, accusing them of attacking Democratic House members with challenges because they are black.
While this was happening, a separate attack on AOC’s Chief of Staff came from the official House Democrats account on Twitter, which also accused him of racism in response to tweet comparing some House Democrats to segregationists. But more on that in a minute.
We begin with this article from this article in The Hill by Scott Wong, who discusses it on Twitter:
NEWS: DEMOCRATS’ RACIAL TENSIONS HEAT UP … @TheBlackCaucus members are furious at the @AOC-aligned @JusticeDems, accusing the progressive outside group of targeting black lawmakers.
Justice Dems say their efforts have nothing to do with race https://t.co/9HYvpgR25o
— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) July 12, 2019
GREG MEEKS refuses to call them “@JusticeDems.” He repeatedly referred to them as “social Democrats” in interview w/me:
“If they want to come after members of @TheBlackCaucus, it’s two ways,” @RepGregoryMeeks warns @AOC and Justice Dems https://t.co/9HYvpgR25o pic.twitter.com/kSpDryxtwx
— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) July 12, 2019
CBC’s @LacyClayMO1, who is being targeted by @JusticeDems, likened the group to “Russian trolls” of 2016 looking to sow divisions:
“Instead of … defeating Trump and holding onto our majority, they find it convenient to go after their own, which is to me a bunch of B.S.”
— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) July 12, 2019
“Russian trolls?” OUCH!
Note this one tweet in particular cites a top Democrat aide who calls AOC a puppet who is “only a women of color when it’s convenient”!
DEMOCRATIC UNITY has been postponed until next week … https://t.co/9HYvpgR25o pic.twitter.com/yu28z0q3WW
— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) July 12, 2019
The same House aide then texts this photo of a ‘Goomba puppet’ for AOC!
For those curious, here’s the image of the Super Mario Bros. Goomba the senior aide texted me pic.twitter.com/3tMFoYm6J1
— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) July 12, 2019
AOC’s Justice Democrats responded, saying it’s ‘disheartening’ to see Democrats make ‘false claims’ and ‘crack down’ on “young leaders of color”:
.@JusticeDems issues lengthy statement in response to this story in @TheHill: pic.twitter.com/zhxvWkBdDe
— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) July 12, 2019
Wow. I’d never thought I would see the race card being used like this in an intramural Democrat fight. But it’s awesome!
But wait, there’s more!
Last night the official House Democrats account on Twitter went after AOC’s Chief of Staff for the tweet he made at the end of June comparing some of them to “Southern Democrats”. Particularly one that singled out Congresswoman Sharice Davids:
Who is this guy and why is he explicitly singling out a Native American woman of color?
Her name is Congresswoman Davids, not Sharice.
She is a phenomenal new member who flipped a red seat blue.
Keep👏🏾Her👏🏾Name👏🏾Out👏🏾Of👏🏾Your👏🏾Mouth. pic.twitter.com/k4sV5hsbQl
— House Democrats (@HouseDemocrats) July 13, 2019
Holy cow. Notice that whoever tweeted it used AOC’s ‘woman of color’ remark that she used to attack Pelosi. Race card keeps flying!
Yashar Ali, who noticed it last night, says the account is operated by Rep. Jeffries, the Chairman of the House Democrats Caucus:
3. @RepJeffries controls this account given his leadership position. I’m not saying he tweeted this personally but is he targeting @AOC?
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) July 13, 2019
Ali also notes that Pelosi’s deputy Chief of Staff retweeted it:
4. Speaker Pelosi’s Deputy Chief of Staff has retweeted this tweet. pic.twitter.com/F78n2yySeQ
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) July 13, 2019
Chakrabarti responded on Twitter to the attack:
This tweet was in response to someone else’s tweet where they specifically brought up Rep. Davids. Why did you leave that out?
I’ve known Rep. Davids for a long time, consider her a friend, and encouraged her to run for Congress back in the fall of 2016. I’m glad she did. https://t.co/3PNhGeAa3V
— Saikat Chakrabarti (@saikatc) July 13, 2019
Everything I tweeted 2 weeks ago was to call out the terrible border funding bill that 90+ Dems opposed. It gave Trump a blank check to continue caging people in horrendous conditions. Our Democracy is literally falling apart. I’m not interested in substance-less Twitter spats.
— Saikat Chakrabarti (@saikatc) July 13, 2019
Ali the notices an interesting ‘response tweet’ from the Comms Director for the House Democrats:
7. @RepJeffries communications director, @michaelhardaway, (who also serves as comms director for the @HouseDemocrats), tweeted this out.
It’s a screenshot from Menace II Society. This scene is known as “payback for Harold” pic.twitter.com/YVu6iyDz50
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) July 13, 2019
Amazing. The bad blood between AOC and House Democrats is clearly BOILING. Sounds like Pelosi needs to have another ‘unity’ meeting and FAST.