Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was stunned on Friday when a Trump supporter left a note on a wall outside her office saying that he supports both her and the president.
The Bronx Democrat, who lets supporters stick post-it notes to the wall outside her House office, posted a photo of the unlikely supporter’s note on Twitter after she briefly spoke to the man.
“Astonishingly, his sign read: “Trump supporters for Ocasio-Cortez,” she wrote with the photo of the note.
“I was pretty astonished. We shook hands, he introduced himself, and told me he wanted to show his support,” she added in another tweet.
“I somehow got it out: ‘With all respect sir, how do you… manage to support both of us at the same time?’” she continued.
“This is what he said: ‘I’ve been saying for years that climate change is our most important crisis. You’re one of the only ones who‘s been willing to be decisive on it,’” she added in another tweet.
“I like you. I can tell that you are genuine and fighting for us. You’re real and you get it,” the man added, she wrote.
“I thanked him and his family from the bottom of my heart,” she said in another tweet.
“All of this is to say don’t let any politician, no matter the party, lecture you about what is ‘possible’ or ‘electable,’” she surmised.
“Don’t ever let a politician imply that working people are ‘less-than’ or ‘uneducated’ – aka that they are the ones in the way of solving the climate crisis,” she said in another tweet.