AOC: Country will heal with the 'actual liberation of southern states' from GOP control

close

Video

D'Souza: Left trying to drive wedge between MAGA movement, traditional GOP

Conservative commentator joins FOX News contributor Mollie Hemingway on 'The Ingraham Angle' to discuss impeachment attempt

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., took to Instagram on Tuesday night and suggested that the states in the south need to be "liberated."

During an over hour-long livestream about the Capitol Hill riots and the ongoing efforts to impeach President Trump, the progressive lawmaker reiterated her call for GOP Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley to resign or be ousted by Democratic challengers for leading the opposition in the certification of President-elect Biden's victory.

She then pointed to "multi-racial" and "multi-cultural" grassroots organization in Georgia that led to Democrats taking control of the Senate as a sign that "southern states are not red states, they are suppressed states."

AOC: 'WE CAME CLOSE TO HALF OF THE HOUSE NEARLY DYING' DURING RIOTS 

"Which means the only way that our country's going to heal is through the actual liberation of southern states, Ocasio-Cortez explained to her 8.3 million Instagram followers, "the actual liberation of the poor, the actual liberation of working people from economic, social, and racial oppression. That's the only way."

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's office did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment. 

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

Ocasio-Cortez has been in a heated war of words with Cruz since the pro-Trump mob raided the Capitol building, accusing him of attempting to fundraise off his election challenge as the riot was ongoing.