Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responds to my invitation to discuss and debate.

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the last couple of days i've been offering alexandra ocasia cortez the democratic darling the

future of the democratic party according to tom perrez the media hit media sensation i've

offered her to come on the

Sunday special and have a one-hour discussion. I offered to have a debate with her. I offered to give $10,000 to her campaign. Obviously, that was somewhat facetious, considering that I think what's the election limit, like $7,500, something like that. In any case, I'm not looking to violate the law. I also offer to give that money to charity or to raise money to charity and she didn't respond,

which is her prerogative. She doesn't have to respond. I mean, that's her thing. Fine. And she had essentially called Ali Stucky and a bunch of conservatives cowards for not wanting to have discussions with her and instead creating satire of her. So I figured, okay, we'll open her an open forum for her to come on the Sunday special. And I'll legitimately have anyone from left on the Sunday special. One of the funniest things about this is that after I offered Ocasio Cortez to come on the show, a bunch of leftists who are pretty prominent started emailing me saying, well, why don't you invite me? And I was like, okay, fine. That's great. Like, I'd prefer to have more people on the Sunday special with whom I can have intelligent conversations from the left. Like, let's talk about Norway. Let's talk about Denmark. Let's talk about socialism. Let's talk about what socialist and what isn't. Let's do all those things. I don't care. Like, that's what I thought this whole debate, this whole area of American life was supposed to be about.

I enjoy those conversations.

Well, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez took this the wrong way.

She took this the wrong way.

And instead, here is what she tweeted out in response to my invitation.

Quote, just like catcalling, I don't owe a response to unsolicited requests from men with bad intentions.

And also like cat calling, for some reason, they feel entitled to one. Well, I didn't feel

entitled to response. You don't have to respond. We can write about it if you don't respond,

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