Hey @KamalaHarris given that you’re so vocal about the #MeToo movement, what are your thoughts on sleeping your way to the top of your political career? I’ll wait. https://t.co/jSmM0xg39C

— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) January 28, 2019

Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who dated Harris many years prior, publishes an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle titled “Sure, I dated Kamala Harris: So what?” Attention to this relationship, which occurred early in Harris’ career, fed into stereotypical tropes of women “sleeping their way to the top.” Conservative commentator Tomi Lahren levied this attack on Harris most overtly via Twitter. In contrast, Washington Post columnist Monica Hesse criticized these gendered attacks soon after Brown published his article.