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Despite Vance's grumbling about "childless cat ladies," the Harris campaign brought strong mom energy: cheerful but determined.

The salary request has also caused grumbling among some inside the department, who question the optics at a time when some police facilities are deteriorating.

His vice president, who didn’t just lose the 2020 presidential primary but flamed out in a morass of campaign drama and policy incoherence, became the candidate, as Democrats fell in line with minimal grumbling faster than you could say “coconut tree.”

The fights mostly carried on without much reaction, except for some light grumbling as the guys marked off the matches where they’d put money on the wrong fighter.

There was also grumbling, especially in the early aftermath of the storm, that the media refused to cover what was happening in western North Carolina, or that the government had no money to help Americans suffering from the storm because it had spent it all on munitions for Ukraine and Israel.