Ocasio-Cortez to followers: If Mike Lee can be a senator, you can do anything

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) mocked Republican Sen. Mike Lee (Utah) on Tuesday after the lawmaker criticized her Green New Deal proposal.

In a tweet, the New York Democrat quipped that Lee’s assertion that a number of problems could be solved by “[falling] in love, [getting] married and [having] some kids” was proof that anyone was capable of running for Senate in America.

{mosads}”Like many other women + working people, I occasionally suffer from impostor syndrome: those small moments, especially on hard days, where you wonder if the haters are right,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.

“But then they do things like this to clear it right up,” she added, referring to Lee’s speech. “If this guy can be Senator, you can do anything.”

Like many other women + working people, I occasionally suffer from impostor syndrome: those small moments, especially on hard days, where you wonder if the haters are right.

But then they do things like this to clear it right up.

If this guy can be Senator, you can do anything. https://t.co/vU4ChbTnnr

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 26, 2019

Lee targeted the Green New Deal in a speech from the Senate floor earlier Tuesday, calling the resolution “unserious.”

“The solution to climate change is not this unserious resolution that we’re considering this week but rather the serious business of human flourishing. The solution to so many of our problems at all times and in all places is to fall in love, get married and have some kids,” Lee said.

Republicans and some Democrats have hammered the Green New Deal resolution introduced by Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) in recent weeks as the Senate prepares to force a vote on the resolution. The plan calls for a major shift in U.S. infrastructure toward clean energy usage and zero carbon emissions.

Several candidates vying for the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination have endorsed the resolution fully or in theory, including Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).