Watch politicians like Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz read mean tweets about themselves

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The entire country is on edge waiting for the 2020 election results to be finalized, but thankfully Jimmy Kimmel Live! gave us three minutes of (somewhat) peace with a political edition of his Mean Tweets series.

Several 2020 Democratic candidates like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren appear in the video; the best tweet among them is probably the one for Pete Buttigieg, who's called Howdy Doody "if Howdy Doody was a fuckin' narc." Poetry!

That's not all, though. Kimmel managed to bring elected politicians from both parties together to read insults spewed from the depths of Twitter, the most notable being Ted Cruz. I won't spoil the tweet for you, though — watch for yourself.

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Anna Iovine is the associate editor of features at Mashable. Previously, as the sex and relationships reporter, she covered topics ranging from dating apps to pelvic pain. Before Mashable, Anna was a social editor at VICE and freelanced for publications such as Slate and the Columbia Journalism Review. Follow her on Bluesky.


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