LONG READS → A FEW MINUTES WITH Issue 844 · January 13, 2021

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis

"We are going to speak out and we are going to draw attention to what they are doing and we are going to fight back"

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis
Photo: AP Images


Photo: AP Images

Move over, Squad, the Freedom Force is on the march and they are double you in size and passion.

Nicole Malliotakis, who won a tough race to become New York City’s sole Republican in Congress, intends to be an outspoken voice against AOC and her friends in the Democratic Party’s progressive wing. The 40-year-old from Staten Island is well-known to the Orthodox Jewish establishment from her decade serving in the state Assembly and her 2017 run for mayor of New York.

Malliotakis’s father was born in Greece, but she describes the hardships her mother had growing up in Castro’s Cuba as the impetus for her drive to “preserve” the American dream. She received a rude welcome to Congress, when on her first full day of work, she was forced into an underground bunker when a crowd who attended a rally for President Trump overran the Capitol.

What a welcome to Congress.

Oh, you’re not kidding. It’s been a crazy, crazy week.

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