Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez To Critics: Congresswomen Dance Too

QUEENS, NEW YORK -- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez owned her new status as the Dancing Queen of Queens by stomping it out in Congress, video shows.

The Queens and Bronx representative tweeted video of herself dancing to Edwin Starr's "War" on Friday after a video of a younger Ocacio-Cortez dancing on a rooftop went viral and spurred criticism from conservatives.

"I hear the GOP thinks women dancing are scandalous," Ocasio-Cortez Tweeted. "Wait till they find out Congresswomen dance too!"

Ocasio-Cortez danced in response to a YouTube video, entitled "Boston University Brat Pack Mashup," that pays tribute to the dance scene in The Breakfast Club and spurred a conservative backlash.

The video was filmed at Boston University, where Ocasio-Cortez graduated in 2011 with a degree in economics and international relations.

"Here is America's favorite commie know-it-all acting like the clueless nitwit she is," a Twitter user called AnonymousQ1776 reportedly wrote on Wednesday. The Tweet has since been deleted.

Ocasio-Cortez supporters quickly rallied behind the nation's young woman ever in congress on social media.

"Now she's totally done for," Karen Tumulty tweeted. "Newly unearthed video reveals that when @AOC was in college, she was ... adorable."

One such Twitter user has become an overnight internet celebrity by reediting the video so Ocasio-Cortez appears to dance to such hits as Kenny Loggins' "Footloose," Lady Gaga's "Pokerface" and ABBA's "Dancing Queen."

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 03: Member elect Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) talks to fellow members of Congress during the first session of the 116th Congress at the U.S. Capitol January 03, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)