Feud Between AOC and Riley Gaines Heats Up

As New York City seems poised to hand its future over to a communist mayor, soon after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders took the stage with mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for their “NYC is Not For Sale” rally, anti-trans activist Riley Gaines issued a warning.

“We’re being destroyed from within,” Gaines wrote in an X/Twitter post, above a picture of Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders and Mamdani.

In the latest exchange, AOC took another swipe at Gaines, telling the new 25-year-old mother to “get a real job” after her latest appearance on “The Ingraham Angle” challenging the New York lawmaker to a debate.

The University of Kentucky alum replied on X, “I have a real job. I’m a mom. It’s the most important & rewarding job in the world.  I think if you had a baby girl like I do, you’d understand my positions a little better.” 

Allie Beth Stuckey, another conservative influencer, defended Gaines’ reply. 

Stuckey posted on X replying to a tweet by AOC from 2020 where she wrote, “Sex work is work.” 

“Being a mom & women’s advocate isn’t a ‘real job,’ but prostitution is,” the Dallas-born social media star wrote. “Girls having access to private spaces and fair competitions isn’t women’s rights, but murdering babies is. Noted.”

Ocasio-Cortez also jabbed Gaines on X, writing, “Maybe if you channeled all this anger into swimming faster, you wouldn’t have come in fifth.”

Social media users weighed in on the latest exchange of barbs between the communist and the conservative.

Amy Reichert, a local politician in San Diego, wrote on X, “Imagine hating another woman for defending women, then mocking her for not beating a man. That’s the left’s feminism in 2025.”

Gary Francione, professor emeritus at Rutgers University, also chimed in to AOC, saying on X, “How regressive of you to regurgitate the old sexist nonsense that women just have to try harder so that they can compete with men—even when it’s a women’s sport. I have been a Dem all my adult life and what you woke elites have done to the party is a travesty.”

Another commenter on X under the name “@DesireeAmerica4″ wrote,” Who else thinks Riley Gaines would absolutely smoke AOC in a live debate?”

“I’ll debate her anytime,” the Tennessee-born collegiate swimmer said. “She can defend socialism — I’ll defend capitalism. She can defend removing God — I’ll defend a biblical worldview. She can defend child sacrifice — I’ll defend the sanctity of life.”

AOC has not yet responded to Gaines’ debate challenge.