We love political reporters. They’re smart, crazy fast, and know more about each candidate than the candidates themselves. They’re also pretty jaded after listening to almost every speech in the 2016 race, covering every press release, and investigating every scandal. Now that the Republican National Convention is upon us, their tweets are better and funnier than ever. Here are our favorites from day one and two:
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— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) July 18, 2016
Odd programming choices at the end here. Two fire-breathers sandwiching the candidate's wife's loving portrait. Strange. #RNCinCLE
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) July 19, 2016
That entrance (via @gettyimages) #RNCinCLE pic.twitter.com/dPowh1n0Qe
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) July 19, 2016
Trump, silhouetted in white, enters to "We Are The Champions."
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) July 19, 2016
I've been covering this for a while but this is still surreal
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) July 19, 2016
Everyone on MSNBC seems to be experiencing a complex mixture of anxiety, glee, schadenfreude, horror and full-body eye-twitchiness.
— emily nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) July 19, 2016
Did Rick Perry refer to a marine as a tall drink of water because that is <3 <3 <3
— John DeVore (@JohnDeVore) July 19, 2016
You might think, since I'm covering the #RNCinCLE, that I'm at the Q arena watching the speeches but I'm not. I'm bowling. Counts as work.
— Emily Flitter (@FlitterOnFraud) July 19, 2016
Trump's day: co-author attacks him in the press; motorcade car crash; infighting on convention floor; Melania plagiarizes Michelle Obama.
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) July 19, 2016
The Melania/Michelle speech fiasco is the latest in a bazillion examples that real-life politics is more Veep than House of Cards.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 19, 2016
Woah, sounds like I missed a fun journo party last night. #RNCinCLE pic.twitter.com/MmM08gbs5k
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) July 19, 2016
