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Riley Gaines challenged Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., to a debate Monday after the two argued on social media.
OutKick contributor Gaines appeared on Pak Gazette Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle” after Ocasio-Cortez responded to the former NCAA swimmer’s criticism of the Democrat.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks during a rally for New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
“So this is what I’ll say. I want to honestly challenge AOC to a debate,” Gaines said. “She can defend socialism. I will defend capitalism. She can defend the elimination of God. I defend embracing a biblical worldview. She can defend child sacrifice. I will defend the sanctity of life. Any of the radical and insane Democratic policies they defend, I will debate the opposite and I am challenging AOC to that here.”
Pak Gazette Digital reached out to Ocasio-Cortez for comment, but the dispute continued on social media.
Ocasio-Cortez later responded: “And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job.”
Gaines responded to Ocasio-Cortez.
“This is comical given that it’s coming from someone whose own party shut down the government and left you technically… jobless. And I guess I’ll take that as a no (which is to be expected when your positions are indefensible on virtually every issue),” he wrote on X.
“I have a real job. I’m a mother. It’s the most important and rewarding job in the world. I think if you had a girl like me, you’d understand my positions a little better.”
Gaines posted a photo featuring Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. Gaines wrote: “We are being destroyed from within.”
The New York Post editorial board sharply criticized Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., for creating the policies that have led to New York City becoming too expensive for residents. (Tom Williams/Getty Images)
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Ocasio-Cortez responded: “Maybe if you had channeled all this anger into swimming faster you wouldn’t have come in fifth.”
“Their position is morally bankrupt and politically foolish. To be clear, yes, I finished fifth in the nation at the Division I national championships, tying with a 6-foot-4 man who ranked 462nd in the men’s division the year before,” Gaines said. “It was like an episode of ‘South Park,’ but in real life. And whose side are AOC and the rest of the Democratic Party on? They choose the 6-foot-4 man who showed his drugs to the women in the locker room; that’s the side they take.
Former All-American University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines speaks before Florida Governor and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis at the Greenville Convention Center on Friday, June 2, 2023. (MCKENZIE LANGE/Staff/USA TODAY NETWORK)
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“They can’t help but be on the wrong side of every 80/20 issue, whether it’s the border, crime, child castration, parental rights or men in women’s sports.”
