“If we lose the House, this is no joke,” Ocasio-Cortez said at a town hall meeting Wednesday. “January 6 was a trial run, and a lot of people don’t seem to understand that.”

“It was a trial run, and they’re going to come back,” the congresswoman warned. “Here’s the technicality of what happened on January 6: the only reason it wasn’t worse was because Democrats had the House and they didn’t have the votes in the House.”