© Greg Nash Ocasio-Cortez claps back at Pence calling her 'AOC' during debate

During the debate, Pence had suggested that the Green New Deal – the signature legislative proposal of Ocasio-Cortez – was a product of “climate alarmists” that would be expensive and cost. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) responded Wednesday night to a reference to her nickname by Vice President Pence during the vice presidential debate.' For the record @MikePence, it's.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) responded Wednesday night to a reference to her nickname by Vice President Pence during the vice presidential debate.

'For the record @Mike_Pence, it's Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez to you,' the New York congresswoman tweeted after Pence referred to her as 'AOC.'

For the record @Mike_Pence, it's Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez to you.

- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 8, 2020

Ocasio-Cortez's colleague and fellow 'squad' member, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), also took aim at Pence's usage of her name.

'Pence you are obsessed. She's a prolific legislator, a historymaker, a movement leader, I get it. But stop being so familiar,' she tweeted Wednesday night. 'Titles matter & she's earned hers. It's CONGRESSWOMAN Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AUTHOR of the Green New Deal.'

Pence you are obsessed. She's a prolific legislator, a historymaker, a movement leader, I get it. But stop being so familiar. Titles matter & she's earned hers. It's CONGRESSWOMAN Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AUTHOR of the Green New Deal.

- Ayanna Pressley (@AyannaPressley) October 8, 2020

President Trump's reelection campaign has frequently attempted to tie Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), to the party's left flank amid polling that shows suburban moderates favoring Biden.

In addition to Ocasio-Cortez, Pence repeatedly invoked the congresswoman's signature Green New Deal environmental proposals and repeated the president's false accusation that Biden seeks to ban fracking.

While Ocasio-Cortez serves as a co-chair of the Biden campaign's climate task force, the former vice president has said he does not support the Green New Deal.

Ocasio-Cortez also weighed in on Harris correcting Pence about Biden's fracking position Wednesday, tweeting that the natural gas extraction process was 'bad, actually.'

Trump has put Vice President Mike Pence in charge of handling the response to the coronavirus.

Are you scared yet? You should be. Because Pence has already proven he does not value the opinions of the CDC or health officials when it comes to containing the spread of a virus.

As governor of Indiana, Pence masterminded cancelling a free-needle program for addicts in the state. AIDS cases exploded. And now he's going to bring his clenched butt cheeks morality scolding to the Coronavirus panic?

AOC nailed it via Twitter.

Mike Pence literally does not believe in science.
It is utterly irresponsible to put him in charge of US coronavirus response as the world sits on the cusp of a pandemic.
This decision could cost people their lives. Pence’s past decisions already have. https://t.co/NhMPOusOWm

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 27, 2020

As governor, Pence’s science denial contributed to one of the worst HIV outbreaks in Indiana’s history.
He is not a medical doctor. He is not a health expert. He is not qualified nor positioned in any way to protect our public health.
https://t.co/1jVY44p2HF

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 27, 2020

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The Washington Post reminds us that Pence chose prayer over the recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The spread of the disease was attributed to people injecting Opana, an addictive painkiller, with shared needles. But Pence didn’t agree with federal health experts that distributing clean needles was a good idea.

“I don’t believe effective anti-drug policy involves handing out drug paraphernalia,” he told the Indianapolis Star at the time. Despite assurances from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that it is an effective way to halt the spread of infections and diseases such as HIV and hepatitis B and C, Pence said if state lawmakers tried to send him a bill for a needle-exchange program, he would veto it.As cases spiked, Pence reportedly turned to prayer.

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And this is not some partisan criticism of Mike Pence, Even if he is a right-wing religious zealot and anti-LGBTQ scold, but the findings from Yale University's investigative report:

In 2018, researchers at Yale University found the epidemic could have been prevented if Pence and state officials had acted faster. The study received financial support from the federal government.

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This is the man now in charge of trying to contain the coronavirus.