Arizona Dem Rep. Yassamin Ansari, 34, dating YouTuber Jack Cocchiarella, 24: report
Progressive Rep.Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz) is dating lefty YouTuber Jack Cocchiarella, 10 years her junior.The two first met when Cocchiarella, 24, interviewed Ansari, 34, in spring 2025 and have been seeing each other for the past few months, TMZ reported Thursday.Ansari declined to discuss her relationship, instead using her statement to lash out at President Trump and the US’s seven-month war in Iran.“I’m not commenting on my personal life, nor is it anyone’s business.
Right now, ICE is terrorizing communities across the country with zero accountability, and Trump’s reckless war in Iran continues raging on,” she told the outlet.“I’m focused on helping to flip the House so we can pass meaningful legislation — that’s what we should all be focused on,” she added.Cocchiarella also refused to comment on his personal life.Ansari, a first-term Democrat who represents Arizona’s 3rd Congressional District, was born in Seattle to Iranian immigrant parents and grew up in Arizona.She attended Stanford University and interned in then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco district office in 2012, according to Roll Call.Ansari became the first Iranian American Democrat elected to Congress when she won her Arizona seat in 2024.Ansari has faced scrutiny over claims about her ties to Iran.In April, an online petition that drew more than 13,000 signatures called for an investigation into alleged “undisclosed foreign lobbying and ties” between Ansari and Iran.The petition included a doctored image of Ansari in a turban and provided no evidence of the alleged ties.Ansari rejected the claims as “hateful rhetoric, lies, cruel and deliberate misinformation” in a statement to The Post.The suggestion that she is tied to the Iranian regime is an “outright lie,” she said.Cocchiarella, who is from Winter Park, Fla., first went viral as a student activist at Dartmouth College after publicly challenging conservative figures including former Rep.Madis...