This is such a strange tweet from a NYT political reporter. First off, in what way is stating a hard statistical fact 'disconnected from realities'? Are we just supposed to pretend that all the 3rd party weirdo votes would've gone to the Dem (see: Jill Stein & 'earning my vote')/
https://twitter.com/AsteadWesley/status/1331704494745378817
Also, do you really 'not get what it's supposed to mean' that she underperformed drastically from the top of the ticket, given that it was literally in your very own interview you did with AOC, where she held up Omar (& her door-knocking) as some big factor into Biden's win?
I really don't believe that he doesn't get this. Even a Chris Cillizza-level political journalist could understand this. I'm just going to go with playing dumb.
On a related note, isn't it kind of odd how the journalists who cover (& get favorable interviews/leaks from) 'the left' always seem to go out of their way to run defense for them? Remember when that DB journo tried to make "Biden throws Bernie progressives under the bus"a thing/
because Biden simply responded to 'how do we know you're not a socialist?' with 'because I beat the socialist." That was a dumb non-troversy.
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