Perhaps the wording of her communications was unbecoming.
its been repeatedly demonstrated for the last several years that people who seek elected office only do so because they want the power. Its is a very rare individual who goes this road to better society at the behest of their constituency.
This remains my takeaway from observing this repeatedly.
So my question, perhaps only to myself, is what to consider when choosing whom to vote for. How do you determine that this will be their behavior once they are in office?
You do not have the slightest legal duty to be polite to elected officials. There’s even a Supreme Court decision that says the speech may be loud angry, crude, boisterous, etc.