The campaign staff of Elizabeth Warren is clearly upset that all of their efforts have been wasted. They thought they had backed the winning horse and are now coming to the realization that it wasn’t meant to be. But they are not taking this loss well and many ex-Warren staffers have decided to attack Politico Reporter, Alex Thompson, telling him to “Eat S***,” amongst other things. They feel Thompson did not properly cover Warren and put out the pro-Warren propaganda the campaign desperately needed.
“Some Warren campaign staffers don’t have a good understanding of campaign journalism,” said Thompson in a tweet thread Saturday morning. “Not my job to ‘actively support the candidate that you were assigned.’ It is my job to contact as many [people] as possible rather than just rely on what the campaign wants to give me.”
Thompson then provided screenshots of public tweets he’s received from several former Team Warren staffers, including two ex-staffers telling him to “eat sh*t” — albeit one of them used the poop emoji instead of spelling it out.”
Some Warren campaign staffers don’t have a good understanding of campaign journalism.
Not my job to “actively support the candidate that you were assigned”
It is my job to contact as many ppl as possible rather than just rely on what the campaign wants to give me. pic.twitter.com/GjSDQ4i5ii— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) March 7, 2020
“Another Warren staffer also claimed that “media outlets/reps LIKE You chose to drive the narrative by reporting only on the struggles, rather than successes,” while adding that he “never had any intention of actively supporting the candidate that you were assigned.”
“Kristen Orthman, Warren’s communication director, was forced to issue a public ‘reminder’ tweet about what doesn’t constitute appropriate behavior.
“I understand being upset. I am too. But inappropriate language toward other campaigns or the press is never what our campaign or [Elizabeth Warren] is about. Let’s keep the fight focused on the issues,” said Orthman.”
“A Politico spokeswoman told the Washington Examiner, “Alex has established himself as a top-notch reporter on the trail this election cycle. His coverage of Elizabeth Warren’s campaign, and the 2020 race at large, was sharp, illuminating, and accurate. We stand by his reporting.”
The Warren staff is just upset as they needed all the help they could get and Alex Thompson was not the propaganda machine they were hoping for. As it stands Warren should have dropped pre Super Tuesday, all she did is aid the Biden campaign, when her views seem a lot closer to Sanders. But seeing just how nice Warren’s campaign staff was it looks like the Dems dodged a bullet named Warren.
Just shows that she cannot even control her own people
LEFTISTS are ALL POOR LOSERS. Just look at tbe last 4 years of every corrupt leftist trying to DESTROY President Trump!
It is a reporters job to REPORT fact. Not support the person they are reporting on. You are not doing your job correctly if you are supporting or undermining. Your job is to report fact and let the public decide. You give the good, the bad and the ugly. The public reads and decides what to do with the information. Anything else isn’t news, it’s advertising, or commentary. I miss the days when reporters told the truth and not their opinion. We need facts, unaltered, unedited, unadulterated facts.