Rep. Porter Recounts Capitol Riot: AOC Told Me that She ‘Hoped To Get To Be a Mom’ Before She Dies

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PORTER: "And Alex is really usually, like, unfailingly polite and very personable, and she wasn’t even really talking to me. She was opening up doors and I was like, 'Can I help you? Like, what are you looking for?' And she said, 'I’m looking for where I’m going to hide.' And the thing that will always stay with me, the two memories that really — you know, especially as a mom — I think were just really powerful for me, was when she said, you know — I was saying, 'Don’t worry. I'm a mom, I’m calm. I have everything here we need. We can live for like a month in this office.' And she said, 'I just hope I get to be a mom, I hope I don’t die today.' And the second thing is she was wearing heels, and I remember her saying to me — I was wearing flats, and I remember her saying to me, 'I knew I shouldn’t have worn heels. How am I going to run?' And we went and we found her a pair of sneakers to wear from one of my staffers so that she could run if she needed to literally run for her life."