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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., accused President Trump of setting a “racist tone” as an example for her critics.

“I’m gonna be very frank: I think that this president has set a racist tone,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with Vanity Fair published Monday. “I think he has set a tone of such strong misogyny, racism, conspiracy theory-ism.”

Ocasio-Cortez, who claimed she has been underestimated her whole life, said she would not allow Republicans who have mocked her, including jabs aimed at her Green New Deal plan, to thwart her future in politics.

“I think they saw a woman of color — Latina, no less — that came from a working-class and poor background, that ascended to federal office, and they said, ‘We cannot allow this to have credibility, because if people saw that she did it, then maybe others will come — and we cannot let other people like her run for office. We need to make an example out of her,’” Ocasio-Cortez said.

“The reality of the situation is that if I don’t define this moment, and if I don’t use my voice, then they will fill the void,” she said.

Ocasio-Cortez was elected to Congress in the 2018 midterm elections in November. Her national profile skyrocketed after she defeated incumbent and 10-term Rep. Joe Crowley in their primary race in June 2018.

[Also read: AOC is a ‘pompous little twit’ with a ‘silly’ climate plan, says Greenpeace co-founder]