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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , D-N.Y., defended Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani after Republican Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, criticized him for campaigning in Arabic.

"Just a couple decades after 9/11, the leading candidate for NYC mayor is campaigning in Arabic. The humiliation is the point," Gill wrote in a post on X, sharing a Mamdani campaign video in Arabic.

The Republican made the comments when retweeting a Mamdani post on X written in Arabic, which featured a video of the mayoral candidate speaking the foreign language.

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Ocasio-Cortez, who has been backing Mamdani, retweeted Gill's post and commented , "Ov

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