Team Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was X-verified after sharing a photo from a Puerto Rican festival that implied the crowd was made up of supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris.
The New York congresswoman posted a photo of a massive crowd in Puerto Rico on Sunday, comparing the size to presidential rallies.
“Eyes on Puerto Rico: tonight Puerto Ricans gathered the second largest political demonstration of this ENTIRE cycle, only behind Harris’ Ellipse speech, with 75,000 people,” he said.
‘More than 50,000 Puerto Ricans demonstrating for the anti-Trump and anti-corruption Alliance movement and @juandalmauPR. Political earthquake.’
Readers were quick to place a community note in the publication clarifying that the audience was not attending a presidential rally, but rather a festival, he reported. fox news.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was fact-checked on X after sharing a photo from a Puerto Rican festival that implied the crowd was made up of supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris.
“The demonstration represented is the Festival of Hope, organized by the anti-colonial parties of the Citizen Victory Movement (MVC) and the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) before the next colonial elections,” the note said. “It had nothing to do with any of the major parties in the United States.”
Critics slammed AOC for the post, alleging that she had attempted to distort the image to further her personal agenda.
“This event had nothing to do with Trump or Kamala, you are simply using the island for your own political goals in typical Washington colonial style,” one person said.
The congresswoman responded: ‘I didn’t mention Kamala and said it’s about the Anti-Corruption Alliance. To build a coalition, it is relevant to note that the PNP’s Jenniffer González introduced Latinos for Trump and is campaigning with scare tactics about Dalmau cutting Social Security when she is empowered to make cuts through membership with the Republican Party.
Readers then added a community note to his response indicating that he did mention Harris in his original tweet.
DailyMail.com has contacted Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign and House of Representatives office for comment.
Harris stopped by a Puerto Rican restaurant called Old San Juan Cafe on Monday with AOC
Puerto Rican voters became a hot topic for presidential candidates after comedian Tony Hinchcliffe joked at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally that the US territory is a “floating island of garbage.”
His joke cost Trump the endorsement of popular Puerto Rican artist Nicky Jam and earned Harris the support of superstar Bad Bunny, also from Puerto Rico.
Puerto Ricans who live on the island cannot vote in the presidential election, but those who live in the mainland United States can cast their ballots, and many live in a crucial battleground state that could decide the election.
About 580,000 Latinos in Pennsylvania can vote this cycle and most of them are Puerto Rican, according to the UCLA Institute for Latino Politics and Policy.
Harris dedicated much of her last full day of campaigning to reaching out to Latino voters in Pennsylvania.
In Reading, he stopped at a Puerto Rican restaurant called Old San Juan Café and ordered takeout with Gov. Josh Shapiro and Rep. Ocasio-Cortez.