Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made an unfortunate slip during a campaign stop with Sen. Bernie Sanders on behalf of Kansas Democratic Congressional candidate Brent Welder Friday.
“Hello everybody,” Occasio-Cortez said on a video posted to Sanders’ Twitter account Friday evening. “I’m so excited to be hopping on here on Senator Sanders’ account. We’re here in Kansas City to rally for Brent Welder. We’re gonna flip this seat red in November.”
Welder is running against GOP incumbent Kevin Yoder in Kansas’s 3rd congressional district.
Here in Kansas City with @Ocasio2018 to support @BrentWelder and flip this seat in November. pic.twitter.com/RwH5NIhmoo
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) July 20, 2018
Did Ocasio-Cortez mean flip a Red seat to Blue, or did she mean flip the Congressional seat Red, as in Communist Red? You be the judge.
Either way, Twitter was amused:
“We’re going to flip this seat red in November.”
Not sure if gaffe or Freudian slip https://t.co/91QBTZMbPj
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 21, 2018
They just skyped into the show. I almost died.
— John Iadarola (@johniadarola) July 20, 2018
We’re not in the Bronx anymore, Toto. https://t.co/Nl7DcWNcSI
— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) July 21, 2018
Why is @Ocasio2018 saying they are going to “flip this seat red” in November? Ummm that’s not what we are doing. https://t.co/GwBGC6H2DM
— Tom D’Angora (@TomDangora) July 21, 2018