{"id":1175036,"date":"2021-12-31T09:04:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T14:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1175036"},"modified":"2021-12-31T09:04:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T14:04:59","slug":"ocasio-cortez-blasted-after-being-caught-in-miami-beach-as-nyc-sets-pandemic-record-aoc-loves-desantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ocasio-cortez-blasted-after-being-caught-in-miami-beach-as-nyc-sets-pandemic-record-aoc-loves-desantis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocasio-Cortez Blasted After Being Caught In Miami Beach As NYC Sets Pandemic Record: \u2018AOC Loves DeSantis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Focasio-cortez-blasted-after-being-caught-in-miami-beach-as-nyc-sets-pandemic-record-aoc-loves-desantis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1175036&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) faced backlash late on Thursday night after she was reportedly caught in Miami Beach as New York City was decimated by a record number of coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n<p>National Review&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/aoc-spotted-in-miami-beach-as-nyc-reports-record-covid-cases\/\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;that, according to photographs obtained by the publication, Ocasio-Cortez was \u201cseated outside Doraku Sushi and Izakaya in Miami Beach Thursday afternoon, raising a cocktail in one hand and checking her phone in another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WheresAOC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WheresAOC<\/a>? Mask free\u2026 \ud83d\udc40\ud83d\udc0a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SuDDLSScjl\">pic.twitter.com\/SuDDLSScjl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christina Pushaw \ud83d\udc0a (@ChristinaPushaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1476757433116626950?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew York smashed its single-day COVID case record for the second straight day Thursday, reporting at least 74,207 new positives as the&nbsp;omicron surge stretches hospitals further,\u201d NBC New York&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/coronavirus\/ny-covid-cases-shatter-all-time-record-for-2nd-straight-day-with-74k-positives-as-omicron-stretches-hospitals\/3473045\/\">reported<\/a>. \u201cMeanwhile, hospitalizations continue to climb. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s decision to hang out in the red state of Florida amid the historic number of coronavirus cases in the city that she represents comes after she repeatedly attacked Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for briefly going to Cancun, Mexico, earlier this year as the state of Texas dealt with a storm crisis.<\/p>\n<p>In one exchange with Cruz on Twitter, Ocasio-Cortez responded to Cruz by tweeting: \u201cTed, this is pretty rich coming from someone who fled their own home (and responsibilities) during an environmental crisis to cross the border and seek refuge in Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe Mexico shouldn\u2019t let YOU in the next time you try to run away from your job to sip umbrella drinks in Canc\u00fan,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>At one point in the night, \u201c#AOCLovesDeSantis\u201d was one of the top trends on Twitter following the late-night report from National Review.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWelcome to Florida, AOC!\u201d Florida Governor Ron DeSantis\u2019 campaign tweeted. \u201cWe hope you\u2019re enjoying a taste of freedom here in the Sunshine State thanks to @RonDeSantisFL \u2019s leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to Florida, AOC!<\/p>\n<p>We hope you\u2019re enjoying a taste of freedom here in the Sunshine State thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonDeSantisFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RonDeSantisFL<\/a>\u2019s leadership. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AU0Khspu8P\">https:\/\/t.co\/AU0Khspu8P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Team DeSantis (@teamrondesantis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teamrondesantis\/status\/1476767929064693766?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other notable responses to the photographs of Ocasio-Cortez spending time in Miami included:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen L. Miller<\/strong>, political commentator: \u201cCould have gone to Hawaii or Puerto Rico to visit her abuela. She went to Florida. Lol.. she actually did that.\u201d<strong>Christina Pushaw<\/strong>, press secretary for Governor Ron DeSantis: \u201cFlorida is so dangerous &amp; scary that AOC decided to go on vacation in Miami this week. You know it\u2019s a free state when even a Democrat can enjoy cocktails without being forced to show her papers or wear a mask.\u201d<strong>Ian Miles Cheong<\/strong>, journalist: \u201cAOC sipping drinks, maskless and open in the free state of Florida while New York City suffers from record high cases of COVID.\u201d<strong>Rich Lowry<\/strong>, National Review: \u201cWhere else would a New York City socialist go to escape her city during a massive surge in covid cases but Ron DeSantis\u2019 Florida?\u201d<strong>Bryan Dean Wright<\/strong>, former CIA officer: \u201cLike other communists, @AOC is a hypocrite and an all around turd.\u201d<strong>Esteban Gerbasi<\/strong>: \u201cRep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D., N.Y) dines out at Doraku Sushi and Izakaya in Miami Beach as New York sees record surge in Covid-19 cases. A Great Hypocrite.\u201d<strong>Rob Schmitt<\/strong>, Newsmax: \u201cAOC is in south beach for her vacation lol. Prob not good to talk sh!% about Florida all year then vacation there\u2026\u201d<strong>Tim Murtaugh<\/strong>, former Trump campaign spokesman: \u201cBut we have been reliably informed that Florida is dangerous and that the governor wants to kill people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) faced backlash late on Thursday night after she was reportedly caught in Miami Beach as New York City was decimated by a record number of coronavirus cases. National Review\u00a0reported\u00a0that, according to photographs obtained by the publication, Ocasio-Cortez was \u201cseated outside Doraku Sushi and Izakaya in Miami Beach Thursday afternoon, raising a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}