A number of Democrats stood by Nancy Pelosi Thursday after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused the speaker of singling her out based on race.

“I think the speaker is doing a hell of job under some very trying and tough circumstances,” Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) said. “I first met her in 2011. You can say a lot of things about Nancy Pelosi, one thing you cannot say about Nancy Pelosi is that she – I’ve never seen her do anything that had racial overtones.”

Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) also rejected the notion Pelosi was singling out new members of color and found the speaker to be supportive to Ocasio-Cortez and her “squad.”

“I don’t feel she’s targeting. To me, with the freshman women, in general, it seems like she’s been supportive,” Kelly said. “It’s tough. She’s in a no-win situation in a number of ways. … I think she wants us all to be successful.”

Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) said he didn’t think Pelosi was trying to minimize Ocasio-Cortez and chalked up the dispute to a family “squabble.”

“I believe that Pelosi is a good leader and one that has the ability to bring all sides together,” he said.

Pelosi Thursday sought to end the escalating feud between her and Ocasio-Cortez.

“I’ve said what I’m going to say,” Pelosi said.

“We respect the value of every member of our caucus,” Pelosi added. “Diversity is our strength. Unity is our power.”

But she stood by her criticism that Ocasio-Cortez and other first-term firebrands shouldn’t be criticizing other House Dems on Twitter.

Ocasio-Cortez said Wednesday that Pelosi has been “outright disrespectful” for criticizing women of color in her repeated attempts to rein in progressive members of her caucus.

“When these comments first started, I kind of thought that she was keeping the progressive flank at more of an arm’s distance in order to protect more moderate members, which I understood,” Ocasio-Cortez told the Washington Post.

“But the persistent singling out . . . it got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful . . . the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.”

Members grumbled that the feud between the speaker and the Bronx Democrat was a needless distraction.

“You know how people lose elections — by not having the ability to see the big picture and not being able to keep their eye on the ball,” Demings said.

Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) credited Pelosi for trying to keep disputes in check.

“She’s got such emotional self-control,” Welch said.

“When we have disagreements about tactics…we should not get personal about it,” Welch said.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), a member of AOC’s squad, declined to say Thursday whether she stood by Ocasio-Cortez’s assertion that Pelosi was singling out women of color.

“You know what my residents want me to talk about is the fact that they are the third poorest congressional district in the country and we need to focus on that,” the Detroit rep said.

But Ocasio-Cortez ratcheted up the dispute Thursday, claiming that Pelosi’s targeted criticism of her and three other female freshman lawmakers to knock off Twitter jeopardized their safety.