White House counselor Kellyanne Conway just liked a very curious post-debate tweet about President Trump being vulnerable in 2020.
After Thursday's Democratic debate, CNN contributor Tara Setmayer argued on Twitter that former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) could join forces on a ticket that would defeat Trump in 2020. She was responding to a thread by CNN commentator Matt Lewis, who argued Harris' sparring with Biden during the debate was a win-win situation because it could either set her on a path toward being the nominee for president or Biden's running mate.
Conway, interestingly, liked this tweet from Setmayer, as a Twitter bot that follows the activity of members of the White House noted.
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Chances are this Twitter like was a mistake on Conway's part, although she has yet to unlike it. If it was inadvertent, she's in good company at the White House, where Trump has routinely liked odd tweets seemingly by mistake. Earlier this month, he randomly liked a tweet praising Rihanna as a "work/life balance queen!" After an appropriately exhaustive investigation, Slate's Ashley Feinberg concluded Trump probably hit like by accident after this appeared in a Twitter moment.
Conway's husbamd, Trump critic George Conway, has been touting the California senator following Thursday's Democratic debate, writing on Friday, "Harris would annihilate Trump." So if this Twitter somehow actually wasn't a mistake, it could be a very rare area of agreement between the frequently-at-odds Conways.
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