Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria Ocasio-CortezOn The Money: Anxious Democrats push for vote on COVID-19 aid | Pelosi, Mnuchin ready to restart talks | Weekly jobless claims increase | Senate treads close to shutdown deadline McCarthy says there will be a peaceful transition if Biden wins Anxious Democrats amp up pressure for vote on COVID-19 aid MORE (D-N.Y.) blasted the GOP for throwing its weight behind Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) in her runoff election, despite her controversial comments.

"@cindyhydesmith said she’d 'be on the front row' at a 'public hanging' and won a Senate seat," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. "The GOP admits below they went 'all in' for her race. This is the Republican Party National org."

"No GOP member gets to pretend this 'doesn’t represent' them unless they disavow it."

.@cindyhydesmith said she’d “be on the front row” at a “public hanging” and won a Senate seat.



The GOP admits below they went “all in” for her race. This is the Republican Party National org.



No GOP member gets to pretend this “doesn’t represent” them unless they disavow it. https://t.co/nGxtyVoryw — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) November 29, 2018

Hyde-Smith, who won Mississippi's Senate runoff election against Democrat Mike Espy earlier this week, sparked controversy during the campaign when she said that she liked one of her political supporters so much that she would sit in the "front row" of a "public hanging" with him.

"I would fight a circle saw for him," she said of the supporter. "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row."

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Hyde-Smith apologized for the statement and said it was an "exaggerated expression of regard" for the supporter that she made in jest.

Some Republicans have defended Hyde-Smith.

"There’s been a lot of mock outrage about this statement that she made," Sen. Roger Wicker Roger Frederick WickerHillicon Valley: Subpoenas for Facebook, Google and Twitter on the cards | Wray rebuffs mail-in voting conspiracies | Reps. raise mass surveillance concerns Key Democrat opposes GOP Section 230 subpoena for Facebook, Twitter, Google Senate panel threatens subpoena for Google, Facebook and Twitter executives MORE (R-Miss.) told Fox News on Wednesday regarding Hyde-Smith's comment. "There was nothing at all racial about it."

After the video of her statement surfaced, she lost the support of a variety of high-profile donors, including Walmart, AT&T and Major League Baseball.

She was also criticized when a 2014 photo reemerged of her wearing a Confederate soldier's cap earlier this month.