Pelosi Calls AOC ‘Gracious,’ Compares Disagreements To ‘Family Differences’

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 26: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) walks out of her office after a meeting with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), on Capitol Hill July 26, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) spoke briefly about her morning meeting with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Friday, calling the freshman congresswoman “gracious” and comparing their disagreements to “differences” within a “family.”

“We had a good meeting,” Pelosi said. “And the congresswoman is a very gracious member of Congress, so we had a very positive conversation about our districts and how we represent our country and how we need to meet the needs, the diversity of America and the challenges we face in terms of issues and how immigration and people are respected.”

“It’s just like you’re in a family,” she continued. “In a family you have your differences, but you’re still family.”

She also said that she has “confidence” and “joy” in the diversity of her caucus, but emphasized her role as a “unifier” no matter her personal progressiveness.

Ocasio-Cortez reached out for a meeting a couple weeks ago to — as Pelosi put it — “clear the air” after a dust-up over border legislation.

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  1. This is how this stuff should be handled. I want to personally thank Donald J. Trump for uttering in public one of the most racist statements ever uttered by a public official in US history over the last 40 years or so. It snapped the Dems into alignment.

    The Quinnipiac poll [correction: FOX poll] showing Trump underwater on immigration and massively underwater on the question of whether his comments crossed a line also probably made it easier for Pelosi to make peace. The Squad is helping to reframe the election around things that make Trump unpopular. That makes life easier for moderates. I know Pelosi is protective of her ‘majority makers’ but she also ought to be telling them how the risks the Squad are willing to take actually helps them.

  2. What? No ‘cat fight’ between these two prominent women? What will the press write about then?

  3. Nancy Pelosi is gracious, too.

  4. The alternative was to work it all out in a bar in Wasilla, AK.

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