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Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) threatened to run for president last week, severely misquoting the United States Constitution in the process.

 

"You can't even run for president for another six years," the photographer told Ocasio-Cortez, who is just 29 years old. The Constitution requires the U.S. president be at least 35 years old.

"No, not for a long time. Thank God," she replied. "Although we've been joking that because the Equal Rights Amendment hasn't been passed yet,the Constitution technically says he cannot run unless he's 35. … So what we'll do is we'll force the Republican Party to pass the Equal Rights Amendment by threatening to run for president."

"That is awesome. All the people who say a literal interpretation of the Constitution is the only thing you should be paying attention to," the photographer responded.

"Exactly, all those Constitutionalists, I will keep vigilance," Ocasio-Cortez snarked.

What does the Constitution actually say?

As Politico noted, the Constitution — in Article II, which defines the qualifications for president — does not use a gendered pronoun as Ocasio-Cortez claimed. Instead, the Constitution says "any person."

Here is the exact wording on presidential qualifications:

No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.
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1 hour ago, ActionfigureJoe said:

I hope conservative tv and radio keeps beating up on the young, pretty thing. 

She just keeps tossing these softballs out there, they’re going to swing. She has been criticized plenty by her side as well.

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5 minutes ago, DriftBusta said:

Kind of like all you guys do on Tomi Lauren?  

WGAF about that blonde bobble head and Trump says all kinds of stupid shit...AOC should fit right in.🤣

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