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    Watch ‘Squad’ Reps. AOC, Bowman’s cringeworthy antics at R-rated NYC rally to boost embattled Dem

    By Chris Nesi,

    6 days ago

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    Desperate Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) enlisted heavy artillery from his party’s progressive wing for a weekend rally in the Bronx to try to shore up his flailing re-election bid — but viral clips of the event’s cringey on-stage antics show the last-ditch effort backfired badly.

    Footage from Saturday’s campaign rally at St. Mary’s Park in Mott Haven showed the severely struggling incumbent and fellow “Squad’ member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) acting like buffoons on the stage, gifting the internet with heaps of unintentional humor.

    AOC kicked things off by stomping around on stage to a blaring Cardi B song, appearing to try to summon the pomp of a superstar rapper about to perform her biggest hit to an adoring crowd.

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    Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) bizarrely started chanting his own name during Saturday’s raucous Bronx rally. AFP via Getty Images

    “Hoes better lower they tone when they spittin’. Bitches is washed, soap on the dishes. I apply pressure like boa constrictors,” X-rated lyrics from the Cardi B song “Enough” pumped over the PA system as the congresswoman from New York City continued her gyrations.

    “One bitch, two bitch, old bitch, new bitch. None of y’all bitches not gon’ do s–t,” the Grammy winner’s lyrics continued.

    Rep. Hakeem Jeffries phones in last-minute robocall for on-the-ropes Jamaal Bowman

    Ocasio-Cortez bounded around waving her fists and roughly removing her hair tie before accosting the podium, shaking it so vigorously that she briefly knocked over her microphones .

    “Are you ready to take the country back?!” the far-left House member shrieked to about 300 onlookers, a modest-size crowd given the fact that her party has controlled the White House and Senate for the past four years.

    The rally was a last-minute attempt to gin up support for Bowman ahead of Tuesday’s primary election, in which the two-term rep trails moderate Democratic challenger George Latimer by double digits in the district covering southern Westchester County and a portion of the Bronx.

    Bowman is in very real danger of losing his seat after numerous controversies and oddball statements .

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    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went wacky to a song by rapper Cardi B. GC Images
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    Ocasio-Cortez asked the crowd if they were ready to “take the country back.” Michael Nigro for NY Post

    Not to be outdone by AOC, other footage showed Bowman, the sleeves of his yellow T-shirt rolled up, grabbing a stool from the Bronx rally stage, waving it in the air and slamming it down while leading the crowd in a chant of “Cease-fire now!” in video shared on X by Freedomnews.tv .

    NY primary election live updates: Bowman, Latimer face off in the Bronx, Westchester

    Another clip showed the besieged congressman doing windmills with his arms to rally the crowd, jumping up and down, before bellowing, “We gonna show them who the f–k we are!” to raucous applause.

    “We are gonna show f–king AIPAC the power of the motherf–king South Bronx,” the potty-mouthed congressman said, referring to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, in another clip circulating online.

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    Members of the crowd holding anti-Israel signs at the Bronx rally for Bowman. Photo by YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images
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    People wave Palestinian flags at the rally. Michael Nigro for NY Post

    In yet another bizarre moment, Bowman led the crowd in a chant of his own name, thundering, “Bowman! Bowman!” into the microphone and nodding in approval as people joined in.

    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was also in attendance but was considerably more measured in his remarks, calling Tuesday’s primary “one of the most important” elections in modern American history.

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    Footage of the unhinged behavior by the New York pols — who are infamously part of a group of far-left House members called “the Squad” — was ripped by some local leaders.

    “The level of profanity here is so shocking as to be unbecoming of a Member of Congress,” Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY), who has been feuding with Bowman over Israel, wrote on X.

    “There is nothing in Jamaal Bowman’s unhinged tirade that remotely resembles the decency of the people I know and represent in the South Bronx,” Torres said.

    The shameful event also made the rounds online, garnering millions of views and thousands of derisive comments.

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    Bowman on stage with Sen. Bernie Sanders at the Bronx rally. Michael Nigro for NY Post

    “I think she took a bit too much of whatever they give Biden before events,” one X user mused about AOC’s performative enthusiasm on a video shared by journalist Collin Rugg and viewed nearly 5 million times.

    Another person wrote, “Their futures are all in jeopardy, that’s why they appear to be panicked.

    “Time is slipping away fast.”

    Additional reporting by Carl Campanile

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