AOC Takes Aim At JD Vance Over Claim That She 'Doesn't Know What She Thinks': 'Lives In His Head Rent Free'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez again took aim at Vice President JD Vance over a claim he made about she not knowing "what she actually thinks."

Vance made the comment in response to the lawmaker's remarks about oreign policy during the Munich Security Conference.

Speaking on Fox News, Vance said the lawmaker is among politicians who "are given lines and when you ask them to go outside the lines they're given, they fall apart."

"Anybody really believes AOC has very thoughtful ideas about the global world order or what the U.S. should do with our policy in Asia or Europe? This is a person who is mouthing the slogans that somebody else gave her. It shows how thin the Democrats' policy actually is with all these questions," he added.

AOC answered by releasing a campaign email, saying Vance is wrong and detailing three things she thinks.

AOC releases a campaign email hitting back on JD Vance for making fun of her as "somebody who doesn't know what she actually thinks." pic.twitter.com/SsB5jxgB8m

— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) February 19, 2026

"In the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, when a person gets sick, they shouldn't go bankrupt. A minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Homes are not slot machines for investors and Wall Street to extort working families out of every last dollar that they have," she said.

"Alexandria lives in JD Vance's head rent-free because she won't back down from fighting for what's right," the email concludes.

The two political figures have clashed repeatedly over the past hours. On Thursday she clapped back over mockery of other foreign policy remarks, saying his attempted joke fell flat with the audience.

Vance had taken a jab at the Congresswoman's response to a question about China and Taiwan at the Munich Security Conference, claiming she froze before answering.

Speaking at an event inaugurating the Board of Peace before an audience that included President Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, press secretary Karoline Leavitt, envoy Steve Witkoff and representatives from more than 45 countries, Vance said: "I knew exactly what I wanted to say, but after the president said that I was so smart and that I didn't want to repeat our congresswoman, who froze for 20 seconds over in Munich."

"Now, I'm tempted, sir, just to freeze for 20 seconds. And just stare at the cameras, and maybe they'll say nice things about me, like they did about Congresswoman Cortez," he added.

The Democratic Rep. replied on social media, mocking Vance and claiming his attempted joke fell flat. "The only thing longer than my pause to think was their silence to his joke," she said.

The remark referenced Ocasio-Cortez's response at the conference when she was asked whether the United States should commit troops to defend Taiwan if China invaded. She appeared to answer hesitantly, after a near 20-second pause.

"This is, of course, a very long-standing policy of the United States, and I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point, and we want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation and for that question to even arise," she said.

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