Liberals insistence of adopting the right-wing narratives once again rears its head. It's really incredible how idiots on the right can just decide that a left-wing figure is something (Hillary is vicious, Obama is a puppet, etc.) and, despite never presenting any actual evidence of that (in the case of AOC, they continually show things that in fact demonstrate she is smarter than the average Congressperson) liberals and centrists eventually and inevitably half-adopt their claims as true: sure, AOC is clueless, but...; sure, Clinton is fake and power hungry, but...; sure, Obama is a puppet, but...
And, for this new generation of politicians that communicates directly with their constituents a lot, it's even easier to just find innocuous things like this and claim them as bombshells. If Beto O'Rourke had won against Ted Cruz, it would have been the exact same thing.