BLUE ON BLUE: Steny Hoyer ZINGS AOC, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib at AIPAC

Greg P. | 9:57 PM on March 24, 2019

SHOTS FIRED!

In his speech at AIPAC on Sunday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer took a not-so-veiled shot at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, telling the crowd “By the way there are 62 freshmen Democrats. You hear me? 62, not 3”:

"There are 62 freshman Democrats. Not three," Steny Hoyer says at AIPAC. Presumably he is talking about @AOC, @IlhanMN and @RashidaTlaib.

Huge applause.

— Alexander Nazaryan (@alexnazaryan) March 24, 2019

Breaking: steny hoyer is Very Mad about Ilhan! "By the way there are 61 freshman democratic members of congress not 3” he says

— Naomi LaChance (@lachancenaomi) March 24, 2019

And this earned Hoyer a standing ovation:

.@LeaderHoyer gets a standing ovation while jabbing @IlhanMN @AOC @RashidaTlaib before an @AIPAC audience: ”By the way there are 62 freshmen Democrats. You hear me? 62, not 3. “

— Sheryl Gay Stolberg (@SherylNYT) March 24, 2019

Of course, Hoyer could have taken this shot at Omar when it counted, but he didn’t:

This is dishonest posturing for the AIPAC audience. Hoyer went on record back when it mattered stating he does not believe Ilhan Omar said anything anti-semitic. https://t.co/z9yFtMLILK

— Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) March 24, 2019

And we expect some significant blowback on this once D.C. take a break from the Mueller report:

Wow.

DEMOCRATIC House Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer (@LeaderHoyer) is at @AIPAC throwing his own colleague, Ilhan Omar, under the bus.

Shameful.

And in one fell swoop, to fawning applause, he basically confirms @IlhanMN was right all along. https://t.co/yVKEibMGJq

— Shaun King (@shaunking) March 24, 2019

Hoyer and the old guard in the Democratic Party leadership stand with AIPAC while attacking emerging leaders like @RashidaTlaib, @AOC, & @IlhanMN for fighting for a progressive and humane foreign policy.

But as 2020 Democrats skip AIPAC, Hoyer & the old guard have already lost. https://t.co/ynjBZdapxE

— Waleed Shahid (@_waleedshahid) March 25, 2019

Other Dems, however, will like it:

Hoyer’s remarks here will please a lot of new House Democrats who have no love for those “3" and resent that the party is to some extent being defined by them. https://t.co/T7bisSEZfR

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 25, 2019

As for AOC, Omar and Tlaib, no response . . .yet.

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