Riley Gaines, the former collegiate swimmer turned Republican activist, traded barbs with Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on social media that amounted to personal attacks after claiming the New York lawmaker was destroying the country.
Gaines, 25, began the feud with Ocasio-Cortez Sunday after claiming, on X, that the United States was being “destroyed from within” by the New York congresswoman, as well as New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and Senator Bernie Sanders.
