Clinton campaign hit with #NotMyAbuela backlash on Twitter
On Monday, the Clinton campaign used the news of Chelsea Clinton's second pregnancy to publish a listicle entitled, "7 ways Hillary Clinton is just like your abuela." Latino Twitter users took issue with the comparison, and soon #NotMyAbuela was trending nationally, with participants detailing all the ways Clinton is not like their grandmothers.
Following the backlash, the Clinton campaign changed the listicle title to a less aggressive version, "7 things Hillary Clinton has in common with your abuela."
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.