grandstanding

Both sides of parliament dismissed it as disrespectful and a failed attempt at grandstanding.

To follow Harris’ expression of sorrow for her loss with “...But do you want to answer her?” is needless grandstanding, not fact-finding pressure.

Rather than grandstanding like this, Congress should spend its time considering the privacy and free speech arguments offered by the ban’s opponents.

“It’s getting worse. They want to break public education and go to school vouchers. It’s political grandstanding.”

Even though each candidate did his fair share of partisan grandstanding, those contests involved actual exchanges of ideas directly between the two principals.