PLATTSBURGH, NY – Republicans are accusing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of “fearmongering” during a stop in Rep. Elise Stefanik’s upstate district — where she said the congresswoman is “not welcome here anymore.”
The lefty Big Apple pol quickly jumped into politics at a Plattsburgh town-hall event advertised as a response to President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” mocking Stefanik for taking a farewell tour of the district when she thought she was about to become the US ambassador to the United Nations.
“Elise did her farewell tour, and I think it’s time to finish the job,” AOC yelled to a cheering crowd at the historic Strand Theater.
“Let’s show her the door. She’s not welcome here anymore,” AOC said on the stage nearly 300 miles away from her own district in The Bronx and Queens.
Stefanik — whose ambassador nomination was yanked by President Trump because he was worried a Dem could fill her House seat — is now running for governor.
“AOC and [Dem North Country Rep.] Paul Tonko may love trying to tax and spend their own constituents to death, but that doesn’t mean they should come to the North Country and peddle the same, tired failing Democrat agenda,” Plattsburgh state Sen. Dan Stec (R-Warren) told The Post.
“Rather than continuing to spread disinformation and fearmongering over President Trump’s historically significant legislative achievement, they should be telling Kathy Hochul and legislative Democrats to rein in Albany’s bloated state budget,” he said.
Other top GOPers laughed off Ocasio-Cortez‘s visit.
“As usual, AOC is beyond parody. Unlike AOC, a suburbanite cosplaying as a girl from The Bronx, Elise Stefanik is actually from her district,” a rep for the New York Republican Committee told The Post — taking a jab at Ocasio-Cortez for famously claiming to be a “Bronx girl” in a recent spat with Trump even though she grew up in Westchester County.
“The North County is Elise Country, and it’s Trump Country – and it’ll stay that way,” the GOP representative said.
AOC, dressed in a white button down shirt and black cuffed pants for the event, professed to love the Adirondacks and claimed she was an avid backpacker.
“The Republican Party will never recover from this,” Erie County GOP Chair Michael Kracker quipped on X.
A rep for Stefanik, asked by The Post if she had any response to AOC saying she’s not welcome in her own district, said in a statement, “Thank you for the political gift of a radical Far Left Socialist’s visit to the North Country.
“It’s like pouring jet fuel on Elise Stefanik’s strong support in Upstate New York,” the statement read.
The event was co-hosted by Tonko, who hailed his colleague “Alex” as a figurehead of the Democratic party.
“They say, ‘Well, she’s the future of the party.’ I say, ‘She’s the today of the party,’ ” Tonko said.
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