Steve Scalise ends Twitter debate with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after attacks from ‘radical followers’ – Washington Examiner

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise put an end to a social media exchange with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., after Twitter users referenced how he was almost shot dead in a politically motivated attack.

“Hi @AOC. Happy to continue this debate on the Floor of the People’s House, but it’s clearly not productive to engage here with some of your radical followers,” Scalise wrote, referring to Ocasio-Cortez by her initials.

Scalise’s tweet shared images of Twitter users making allusions to how the Louisiana Republican was critically injured in 2017 when gunman James Hodgkinson opened fire on he and his GOP colleagues as they were practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball Game.

“Snipe his ass,” one Twitter user wrote.

“She’s got better aim than James Hodgkinson, that’s for sure,” another responded.

Scalise and Ocasio-Cortez had been clashing on Twitter over a CBS News interview with the New York Democrat in which she talks about her plan to fund her “Green New Deal” proposal.

“Republicans: Let Americans keep more of their own hard-earned money Democrats: Take away 70% of your income and give it to leftist fantasy programs,” Scalise tweeted.

“You’re the GOP Minority Whip. How do you not know how marginal tax rates work?” Ocasio-Cortez replied. “Oh that’s right, almost forgot: GOP works for the corporate CEOs showering themselves in multi-million $ bonuses; not the actual working people whose wages + healthcare they’re ripping off for profit.”