When elected officials like @CoryBooker and @KamalaHarris do their job and hold administration officials accountable, our political press dismisses them as grandstanding because they may run for POTUS someday.
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This in turn triggers a wave of trolls calling them "ambitious" or "power hungry" rather than "public servants doing their job, unlike most of their peers."
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Allan Brauer Retweeted Chris Geidner
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I’m legitimately confused by the responses to this tweet. It wasn’t a negative thing. To the extent it was anything, I thought it might be seen as “too positive” b/c I thought it made clear I think she is sounding like someone making her mark on the national stage.
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Replying to @chrisgeidner
Helpful hint: as much fun as it is for get high fives from the cool kids on Twitter (Good luck on your campaign for a Shorty Award!), as an actual reporter you might consider not typing things inside quotation marks that the speaker did not say.
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That framing — the “shorter” — is a long-used framing on Twitter, it wasn’t done for “high fives,” and I don’t think it caused you to think that I meant she actually asked that question. It is a rhetorical device to make a statement more briefly.
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