AOC slammed by liberal critics for ‘not nice’ Munich ‘stumbles’

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , D-N.Y., obtained criticism even from reasonable and liberal commentators for her Munich Safety Convention gaffes over the weekend.

Whereas attending the convention on Friday, Ocasio-Cortez made a number of statements that went viral due to displaying the Home "Squad" member struggling to reply international coverage questions or leveling controversial accusations against other nations .

One instance was Ocasio-Cortez claiming that Venezuela was "beneath the equator" whereas criticizing the Trump administration for arresting the nation's dictator Nicolás Maduro.

"It's not a comment on who Maduro was as a pacesetter. He canceled elections. He was an anti-democratic chief. That doesn’t imply that we are able to kidnap a head of state and interact in acts of battle simply because the nation is beneath the equator," Ocasio-Cortez mentioned.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., took half within the Munich Safety Convention in Munich, Germany, on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (Sven Hoppe /dpa by way of AP)

AOC's Venezuela feedback had been the newest in what extra liberal critics claimed was an embarrassing outing for a potential 2028 presidential candidate .

"Venezuela is above the equator. Relying in your TL you bought very completely different takes on AOC’s Germany talks however she had a lot of clangers that I anticipate to see for 3 years in meme video comps," Semafor author David Weigel wrote on X.

"Whoever satisfied AOC that she had efficiently accomplished her tutoring and was now prepared to offer ebook studies about international coverage in public actually ought to search for one other line of labor. Except the objective was to sabotage her. By which case: kudos for a job effectively accomplished," impartial journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote.

Political analyst Mark Halperin spoke about Ocasio-Cortez's feedback on the 2Way podcast Monday, calling them "one of many greater errors" she's ever made.

"I believe giving AOC a slot might go down in historical past as one of many greater errors she's ever made if she desires to be president," Halperin mentioned.

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He added, "It takes a serious screwup for the New York Occasions to place of their story about AOC that she had, I believe they mentioned it was a 'stumble' or one thing. It needed to be a extremely dangerous stumble."

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Halperin was referring to an article from The New York Times on Friday which claimed that Ocasio-Cortez introduced a "working-class imaginative and prescient" to the convention "with some stumbles." Though the article largely complimented Ocasio-Cortez's remarks, it added that she "struggled at occasions to formulate succinct solutions," notably when it got here as to whether the U.S. ought to decide to defending Taiwan.

"Um, , I believe that that is such a, , I believe that it is a um — that is, in fact, a, um, very long-standing, um, coverage of the USA," Ocasio-Cortez mentioned earlier than lastly responding to the query.

The Washington Post editorial board was extra important of Ocasio-Cortez on Monday, writing that she "appeared out of depth as she tried to graft her class-warfare politics onto international coverage."

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"The message to her European viewers was, in brief: The West could be very dangerous, however the U.S. and Europe ought to stay allies anyway. She mentioned that the U.S. had enabled genocide in Gaza and that President Donald Trump was treating Latin America as America’s sandbox. She used conspiratorial language about companies and oligarchs controlling governments and dictating world affairs to the detriment of the poor folks world wide. It led her to sound extra like a college college member than somebody conducting international coverage," the editorial board wrote.

A number of feedback from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., additionally went viral over the weekend. (Al Drago/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos)

Former CNN journalist Chris Cillizza was among the many earlier critics who called Ocasio-Cortez's response "not great" on X Friday and doubled down when a remark identified that Ocasio-Cortez was not a secretary of protection or secretary of state.

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"Agree. However she DOES wish to run for president. And she or he seems like me once I did not do the studying for sophistication and the professor calls on me," Cillizza wrote on X.

Fox News Digital has reached out to Ocasio-Cortez's workplace for remark.

Lindsay Kornick is an affiliate editor for Fox Information Digital. Story ideas might be despatched to lindsay.kornick@fox.com and on Twitter: @lmkornick.