CHICAGO, Illinois — One day after stealing the show at the Democratic National Convention, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday cemented her central role in the party, praising her one-time antagonist former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“What we saw last night, and what we are seeing this moment is a real passing of the torch,” Ocasio-Cortez, or AOC as she’s known, said during a Dream.org event at the Union League Club of Chicago. “Not only with the tremendously selfless decision that Joe Biden made. Nancy Pelosi also gracefully handed the torch to Hakeem Jeffries in the House, also making history as the first Black speaker—I’ll claim it now, but we gotta get there in November.”
AOC’s comments at the convention in Chicago represent a thawing of relations between the two women, a frostiness that was defined as much by politics as by age.
