Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Spells Out Trump Camp's 'Big Error' At NYC 'Hate Rally'

The New York Democrat also warned that Trump's people are "trying to prime the kind of froth" that led to the Capitol attack.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) slammed Donald Trump’s campaign for attempting to distance itself from some of the extreme rhetoric spewed at the Republican nominee’s New York City rally and said “they’re just realizing that they might have made a big error by saying out loud what they’re thinking.”

“This was a hate rally,” Ocasio-Cortez said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday. “I think it’s very important for people to understand that these are mini Jan. 6 rallies.”

She said Trump’s rallies are intended to “prime an electorate into rejecting the results of an election if it doesn’t go the way that they want.”

“And that’s what they’re doing when they are inciting violence and hatred against Latinos, against black Americans, against Americans who don’t have children,” she said.

The rally was filled with anti-immigrant bigotry from Trump and other speakers, bringing the trademark fearmongering of his campaign to a fever pitch nearly four years after his supporters laid siege to the U.S. Capitol after consuming his lies about a stolen election.