Conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt said Tuesday that former Vice President Joe Biden Joe BidenSenate Republicans face tough decision on replacing Ginsburg What Senate Republicans have said about election-year Supreme Court vacancies Biden says Ginsburg successor should be picked by candidate who wins on Nov. 3 MORE has "gone through the time machine and transgendered into" Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria Ocasio-CortezLawmakers fear voter backlash over failure to reach COVID-19 relief deal Why Democrats must confront extreme left wing incitement to violence The Hill Interview: Jerry Brown on climate disasters, COVID-19 and Biden's 'Rooseveltian moment' MORE (D-N.Y.), suggesting Ocasio-Cortez now fills the "Biden gap" of "people who will say outlandish things."

"Biden has actually gone through the time machine and transgendered into Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez," Hewitt, an MSNBC contributor, said on the "Hugh Hewitt Show" on The Salem Radio Network, as first noted by Media Matters.

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Hewitt made the comment after reacting to Ocasio-Cortez's recent statement that global warming and its effects were this generation's "World War II."

Hewitt mocked the comparison, saying that he's reminded of the game Mad Libs when Ocasio-Cortez speaks.

"I would just love to talk — oh, I would love to talk to her," he said. "Any — just a long extended conversation where the word salad doesn't hold up. It wilts in the heat. Not hardball, just keep talking."

He later added that Ocasio-Cortez was his "favorite person" in America, before saying that Biden had "transgendered" into her.

"This was Joe Biden — she's going to fill the Biden gap," he concluded. "The Biden gap concerned me. Some day Joe will leave the public stage and we will not have people who will say outlandish things. But now the Biden gap is filled."

After news outlets picked up on the comment, Hewitt apologized on Twitter, calling it a "bad word choice on a sensitive subject."

Apologies. Bad word choice on a sensitive subject. https://t.co/xc2wmICeVK — Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) January 22, 2019

Ocasio-Cortez, who became the youngest female member of Congress earlier this month, on Monday called for taking action to combat climate change while speaking at the MLK Now event in New York City.

Among other things, she said that "the world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change." She doubled down on the assertion on Tuesday, saying that "young people understand that climate change is an existential threat."

"For some reason GOP seems to think this is a gaffe, but it’s actually a generational difference," she said.

For some reason GOP seems to think this is a gaffe, but it’s actually a generational difference.



Young people understand that climate change is an existential threat: 3,000 Americans died in Hurricane María.



The UN says we’ve got 12 years left to fix it: https://t.co/KzawP5oI1M https://t.co/xTjtM39cCL — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 22, 2019

Hewitt, a former MSNBC host, announced in June that his MSNBC program would come to an end. He noted at the time that he would remain on the network as a commentator and appear as a guest on MSNBC shows.