AOC’s First House Speech Sets C-SPAN Record [VIDEO]

Oh, how this is triggering the cultists:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) first speech from the House floor quickly became C-SPAN’s most-viewed Twitter video of any remarks by a House lawmaker, drawing 1.16 million viewers in just over 12 hours.

C-SPAN’s communications director, Howard Mortman, shared the results on his Twitter feed Thursday afternoon, one day after Ocasio-Cortez gave her first House floor speech.

In her roughly three-minute speech, Ocasio-Cortez declared that the ongoing partial shutdown is not about the president’s demands for border wall funding but “the erosion of American democracy.”

Watch the speech.

First House Floor speech from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC): “The truth of this shutdown is that it’s actually not about a wall…The truth is, this shutdown is about the erosion of American democracy and the subversion of our most basic governmental norms.” pic.twitter.com/r8tmsGSNtT

— CSPAN (@cspan) January 17, 2019