[AOL] During a town hall meeting with constituents on Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., warned that something like the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot could happen again — and that the insurrection was thwarted only because Democrats controlled the House of Representatives."This is no joke. Jan. 6 was a trial run, and a lot of people don’t seem to understand that," Ocasio-Cortez said. "It was a trial run."
The storming of the Capitol by a violent mob of then-President Donald Trump's supporters as Congress was in the process of certifying Joe Biden’s victory left multiple people dead and over 140 officers injured. More than 750 people have been charged by the Justice Department in connection with the riot.
"They’re going to come back," Ocasio-Cortez said. "And if [Republicans] take the House, then they have the votes to not authorize and legitimize the presidential election.
"The only reason it wasn’t worse was because Democrats had the House," she added. "And [Republicans] didn’t have the votes in the House."