AOC pushes back after GOP lawmaker calls Mamdani’s Arabic campaigning a ‘humiliation’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., defended Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani after Republican Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, criticized him for campaigning in Arabic."Just a couple decades after 9/11, the leading candidate for NYC mayor is campaigning in Arabic. The humiliation is the point," Gill wrote in a post on X, sharing a Mamdani campaign video in Arabic.The Republican made the comments when retweeting a Mamdani post on X written in Arabic, which featured a video of the mayoral candidate speaking the foreign language.WASHINGTON POST RAILS AGAINST MAMDANI AS RAD