WASHINGTON I watched from the House gallery Thursday afternoon when the Democrats socialist sensation, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in suffragist white, rose to announce her vote for speaker.
Nancy Pelosi, the 29-year-old firebrand declared.
From the Republican backbenches came boos and derisive groans.
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