Pelosi angers AOC by endorsing Kennedy scion in Senate race

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday endorsed Rep. Joe Kennedy III in a primary challenge against Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, yielding charges of hypocrisy from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Markey is the Senate sponsor of Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal. Kennedy, a centrist who benefits from his famous family name, outraged progressives by opposing marijuana legalization and legislation to curb mass surveillance.

“No one gets to complain about primary challenges again,” AOC wrote on Twitter after Pelosi (D-Calif.) cut a video ad for Kennedy.

Democratic Party bosses in the House previously blacklisted firms that worked with left-wing candidates in primary campaigns against incumbents, Ocasio-Cortez pointed out.

“So @dccc, when can we expect you to reverse your blacklist policy against primary orgs?” she wrote, complaining it “seems like less a policy and more a cherry-picking activity.”

In her endorsement, Pelosi said: “In 2018 when we took back the House, Joe campaigned across America to make that victory possible. He knows that to achieve progressive change, you must be on the front lines leading movements of people.”

Kennedy thanked Pelosi on Twitter, writing, “No one has done more to take on Donald Trump and build our Party’s future. Proud and humbled to have her with me in this fight.”

Pelosi has clashed with Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who represents parts of the Bronx and Queens, and her leftist allies. “They’re four people, and that’s how many votes they got,” Pelosi said last year, referring to AOC and the “squad.”

In a Thursday evening statement to The Post, Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill defended her endorsement of Kennedy and stressed that Pelosi had also endorsed AOC for re-election.

“The Speaker has been consistent in her support for House Democrats — for their re-election efforts and for their bids for higher office, including Congressman Joe Kennedy for Senate,” Hammill said.