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J.K. Rowling is going to bat for Riley Gaines .

Gaines dominated headlines this week after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez personally attacked the OutKick host on social media by mocking her collegiate athletic accomplishments.

It all started when Gaines posted a photo of AOC, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and Sen. Bernie Sanders during a recent campaign event and captioned it, "We are being destroyed from within."

AOC clapped back by referencing Gaines' fifth-place tie to trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas at the 2022 NCAA Swimming & Diving Championship.

"Maybe if you channeled all this anger into swimming faster you wouldn’t have come in fifth," AOC wrote on X.

Since then, it seems all of so

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