“Who is in charge in that office? Is she unable to fire him for his racist comments?”

…A senior Democratic aide said it was “unheard of” for a chief of staff — or any Hill staffer — to repeatedly and publicly launch broadsides against lawmakers in their own party without any consequences.

…On Friday, Democratic leaders tapped the caucus’s official Twitter account to attack Chakrabarti for a weeks-old tweet targeting freshman Rep. Sharice Davids (D-Kan.), a gay Native American mixed martial arts fighter, for her support of the Senate border bill. Ocasio-Cortez and Justice Democrats had backed Davids’s challenger, Brent Welder, in last year’s Democratic primary.

“Who is this guy and why is he explicitly singling out a Native American woman of color? ” read the message under the House Democrats account, which is managed by the office of Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.).

…“Not a single House Democrat resembles a racist segregationist from the Jim Crow South. Not one. We confronted an incendiary charge that required a measured response,” [Jeffries’s chief spokesman, Michael] Hardaway said on Monday.

…Hardaway declined to discuss internal deliberations with his boss about how the tweet came about. But it appeared to be sanctioned by the top Democratic leadership: The tweet was retweeted by Drew Hammill, who oversees communications and messaging for Pelosi.

…Hammill told reporters he retweeted the caucus tweet “in my personal capacity as a gay man who was bullied and beaten in high school.”

Ocasio-Cortez top aide emerges as lightning rod amid Democratic feud | TheHill

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