Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” long-time MSNBC personality Chris Matthews said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is as American as apple pie.

Matthews said, “They’re going to come up with something dirty. They’re going to try to make all Democrats into something like the Marxist wing of the DSA. They’re going to try to make it really bad, and they’re going to make it nasty, like they did with the going after the trans kids in the last election. Just remember, people on the sidelines of an NFL game, all of a sudden they’re watching this new ad in the third quarter of the game. Where that ad come from? What’s all this about?”

He added, “Karl Rove told me the Republicans are good at that last six weeks where they come up with something really nasty, like Willie Horton. By the way, his name was never Willie in his whole life. They came up with the name Willie because they wanted to sound black. Excuse me. They are very good at confecting this stuff. And I can see, they can do something with the DSA. They’re going to make them into real Marxist, they’re going to play the game. Personally, I think AOC is as American as apple pie. It won’t work with her. It may work with some others, but I think they’re going to get nasty. And I think it’s going to be a really great close.”

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