Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed Marsha Blackburn for trying to make a point about low gas prices in 2020 while Trump was president. “Maybe that has something to do with the fact that everyone in the country was quarantining while 350,000 people died.”
Ocasio-Cortez pointed to this vital context in her reply to Blackburn on Twitter. “Maybe that has something to do with the fact that everyone in the country was quarantining while 350,000 people died and COVID vaccines weren’t out yet,” the New York lawmaker said.
She then called out Republicans who have been complaining about gas prices over the past months. “Unemployment also hit 14.8 percent in 2020, the highest rate ever seen in the US since data collection began,” she said. “Does the Senator want to jump to claim that as Trump’s legacy too? Or would we rather examine context and data like adults?”into the negativesOther Democrats also criticized Blackburn for blatantly ignoring context in her tweet.