I neither support or oppose her, though I have to assume she can't do any worse than any candidate the Democrats are running.

She's much better, and in fact I'd say that she's one of the best Republicans running - right after Blake Masters and JD Vance.

I've seen a few of these "Republicans are refusing to give us quotes we can take out of context to fashion smears and this is a Danger to Our Democracy!!!" pieces, and it warms my heart.

They're not even acknowledging that Republicans refused comments anymore. You can tell that they refused by noticing that they rely on (spinning the) publicly available information for the Republican POV, like tweets.

Whataboutism isn't an argument to persuade the unpersuaded, it's a coping mechanism partisans use when they have their hypocrisy thrown in their face. They can yell "WHATABOUTISM" all they want, but when they are confronted with a literal stack of evidence of their hypocrisy, they might as well be yelling "FISHSTICKS!"

That's an optimistic take. The thing is, it's not even the actual fallacy, but that has never been a barrier to Reddit-tier replies claiming 'fallacies'.

I've never been a huge Trump fan, but far and away my favorite thing about him was watching him disrespect the press.

Same for me. I actually used to hate him for his birtherism, but he grew on me by attacking those pathological liars.