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Posted: 2019-01-04T11:16:48Z | Updated: 2021-08-11T20:13:26Z

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) had one thing to say to the GOP congressmen who reportedly booed her as she voted for Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to become the new House speaker on Thursday.

Dont hate me cause you aint me, fellas, tweeted the 29-year-old, who with her own swearing-in became the youngest congresswoman in history.

Over 200 members voted for Nancy Pelosi today, yet the GOP only booed one: me.

Dont hate me cause you aint me, fellas https://t.co/kLor9A0TWa

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Over 200 members voted for Nancy Pelosi today, yet the GOP only booed one: me.

Dont hate me cause you aint me, fellas https://t.co/kLor9A0TWa

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 4, 2019

Over 200 members voted for Nancy Pelosi today, she wrote. Yet the GOP only booed one: me.

Ocasio-Cortez, who on Thursday was also the subject of a bizarre right-wing smear campaign involving an old video of her dancing, revealed in a further tweet why she wore all-white to the ceremony:

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I wore all-white today to honor the women who paved the path before me, and for all the women yet to come.

From suffragettes to Shirley Chisholm, I wouldnt be here if it wasnt for the mothers of the movement. https://t.co/GBfSSYxbek

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I wore all-white today to honor the women who paved the path before me, and for all the women yet to come.

From suffragettes to Shirley Chisholm, I wouldnt be here if it wasnt for the mothers of the movement. https://t.co/GBfSSYxbek

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 4, 2019

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