AOC torches Cruz’s bid to be friends

Ultraconservative Texas Sen. Ted Cruz suggested Thursday that he and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could team up on a legislative push for stock market reform — and it did not go well.

Cruz floated the proposal in response to a tweet from the Bronxborn progressive voicing concern about a Wall Street powerhouse executing a controversial crackdown on trading this week.

But Ocasio-Cortez — the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol still fresh on her mind — smacked down Cruz’s plea for bipartisanship in a withering string of tweets minutes later.

“You almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago so you can sit this one out. Happy to work with almost any other GOP that aren’t trying to get me killed. In the meantime if you want to help, you can resign,” Ocasio-Cortez (inset right) tweeted back at Cruz (inset left).

For weeks, Ocasio-Cortez has called on Cruz and other Republicans to resign for proceeding with bids to overturn the results of the 2020 election during the joint session of Congress on Jan. 6 — even though a mob of Trump supporters had hours earlier stormed the Capitol in hopes of invalidating President Biden’s victory with violence.

In her Thursday clap-back, Ocasio-Cortez lashed Cruz for refusing to take responsibility for the Jan. 6 chaos, noting that a police officer was killed in the mayhem and two other Capitol cops have since committed suicide.

“You haven’t even apologized for the serious physical + mental harm you contributed to from Capitol Police & custodial workers to your own fellow members of Congress,” she wrote. “In the meantime, you can get off my timeline & stop clout-chasing. Thanks.”

Asked for a response, Cruz claimed Ocasio-Cortez was overreacting. “There’s a lot of partisan anger and rage on the Democratic side,” he told reporters on Capitol Hill. “It’s not healthy for our country, it’s certainly not conducive of healing or unity, but everyone has to decide how they want to interact with others.”