“I’m in trouble,” she said when asked the question on a podcast. The Mets' home field in Queens falls inside her district, while Yankee Stadium in the Bronx does not.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Feb. 2019. Melina Mara/The Washington Post) By Eli Rosenberg Eli Rosenberg General assignment reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow April 15 at 3:50 PM Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez knows how to make waves.
And the Democratic congresswoman from New York waded in to yet another hot button issue Sunday: the fierce baseball rivalry between the Yankees and Mets.Ocasio-Cortez made the disclosure on a Yahoo News podcast, Skullduggery, which is hosted by Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman. “No dodging,” Isikoff told her as he asked the question, noting that her district encompasses portions of both the Bronx, where the Yankees play, and Queens, where the Mets’ Citi Field is located. But while Yankee Stadium is firmly outside of the small patch of the Bronx she represents, Citi Field falls squarely within her district.“I’m in trouble,” she said. “I have been raised a Yankees fan through and through.
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