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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed victory after Amazon announced its intention to lease office space in Manhattan, news which followed the lawmaker’s efforts to prevent the company from putting its second headquarters in New York City, which would have created 25,000 jobs.

Ocasio-Cortez celebrated the reports indicating that Amazon agreed to lease a 335,000-square-foot office space in Manhattan opening in 2021, which will bring an estimated 1,500 jobs to the area.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., took an online victory lap Tuesday night after she handily won the Democratic primary in her Bronx and Queens congressional district, saying her win proves.

The news follows Amazon’s decision to back out of a deal to move its HQ2 project to Long Island City, which “could have created between 25,000 and 40,000 jobs with an average salary of $150,000,” as Breitbart News reported. Ocasio-Cortez opposed the idea due to the agreement’s “tax breaks and financial incentives” and celebrated Amazon’s decision to ditch the plan as a victory over “corporate greed.”

“Won’t you look at that: Amazon is coming to NYC anyway – *without* requiring the public to finance shady deals, helipad handouts for Jeff Bezos, & corporate giveaways,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted following Friday’s announcement.

“Maybe the Trump admin should focus more on cutting public assistance to billionaires instead of poor families,” she added:

Won’t you look at that: Amazon is coming to NYC anyway – *without* requiring the public to finance shady deals, helipad handouts for Jeff Bezos, & corporate giveaways.

Maybe the Trump admin should focus more on cutting public assistance to billionaires instead of poor families. https://t.co/BbqhXbB9MM

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 6, 2019

She also posted a picture of herself sitting smugly on a couch with the caption, “Me waiting on the haters to apologize after we were proven right on Amazon and saved the public billions”:

Me waiting on the haters to apologize after we were proven right on Amazon and saved the public billions https://t.co/AC64pG0nZIpic.twitter.com/xzCepkX4AV

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 6, 2019

However, critics were quick to point out that her victory lap is unwarranted, as Amazon’s current plan brings significantly fewer jobs, and the location is not within her district.

“I’m thanking her! Amazon is going up in my town instead. We need the jobs!” one user wrote.

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“You realize you still cost your own district tens of thousands of jobs, right? And since Amazon isn’t building you also cost the city billions in revenue,” another added. “This is such an odd and sad victory lap. lol.”

“She caused a 25,000 job expansion in NY to go to 1,500 jobs in a rented space,” another remarked.

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Another day, another viral misleading tweet from AOC. Amazon is leasing office space in Manhattan for 1,500 employees, which is 6% of the 25,000 jobs its HQ2 in Queens (her district) was supposed to add. https://t.co/aQM6Uv77Qx

— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) December 6, 2019

The Amazon HQ deal you destroyed in Queens would’ve employed 25,000+ people. The new space will employ 1,500. 25,000+ good jobs and increased economic activity at a growing headquarters is far > than 1,500 jobs at a non-HQ. You have an embarrassing lack of business knowledge.

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) December 7, 2019

It's incredible how dumb your followers are and how they're praising you for this.

Amazon was initially offering 25,000 jobs in YOUR DISTRICT to now only offering 1,500 jobs OUTSIDE your district.

Meaning you caused 94% job loss in NYC.

— Caleb Hull 🎅🏻🎁 (@CalebJHull) December 7, 2019

The Amazon at the Queens location would have employed 25,000 workers, this location at Hudson Yards will hire 1,500. https://t.co/9D6MBK3eLA

— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) December 6, 2019

And you only cost the city 23,500 jobs. Congrats.

— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) December 7, 2019

Amazon is now going to create just 6% of the jobs they would've before AOC killed their deal with NYC (1,500 vs 25,000), but by all means take a victory lap for the 23,500 jobs that are never coming to NYC thanks to AOC. https://t.co/Ix35LwKJ9w

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) December 7, 2019

© UPI Photo Ocasio-Cortez slams Trump's 'authoritarian' declaration of victory

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) condemned President Trump early Wednesday for prematurely declaring himself the winner of the presidential election even though millions of ballots are still being counted across the country, calling his announcement 'authoritarian.'

'Donald Trump's premature claims of victory are illegitimate, dangerous, and authoritarian,' Ocasio-Cortez, a vocal critic of the president, wrote on Twitter.

'Count the votes. Respect the results,' she added.

Donald Trump's premature claims of victory are illegitimate, dangerous, and authoritarian.

Count the votes. Respect the results.

- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 4, 2020

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In an address from the East Room of the White House early Wednesday, Trump asserted that he had won states like Georgia, North Carolina and Michigan, despite tens of thousands of outstanding ballots in those states.

'This is a fraud on the American public. This is an embarrassment to our country. We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election,' Trump said, adding that he would go to the Supreme Court in an effort to stop ballot counting.

No media outlet has called a winner in those states, and no election officials have declared a winner in the race for the White House.

As of Wednesday morning, Trump leads Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Michigan by only 0.3 percentage points with 90 percent of the vote reporting.

Mail ballots are still being counted in Michigan and Wisconsin, where Biden now leads by 1 percentage point with 95 percent of the votes in.

Biden's campaign manager, Jen O'Malley Dillion, slammed Trump for his remarks, calling them 'outrageous.'

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'The counting will not stop. It will continue until every duly cast vote is counted. Because that is what our laws - the laws that protect every Americans' constitutional right to vote - require,' O'Malley Dillon said in a statement early Wednesday, adding that Trump's comments are 'a naked effort to take away the democratic rights of American citizens.'

Trump also received bipartisan criticism from lawmakers after his remarks, with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), a top Trump ally, telling ABC News anchors that Trump's decision to prematurely declare himself the winner was 'bad.'

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'I talk tonight not as a former governor, but as a former U.S. attorney. There's just no basis to make that argument tonight. There just isn't,' said Christie, who previously served as U.S. attorney for New Jersey.

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Ocasio-Cortez easily won reelection Tuesday night against Republican challenger John Cummings after surviving several Democratic primary challengers, winning just under 75 percent of the vote.