Standing outside Harris’ former elementary school earlier this month, a gaggle of informed fourth-graders were ecstatic about the possibility that one of their own could be the nation’s first female president.

"I saw a gaggle of girls around and realised they were filming the music video," she said.

He contends that the former president’s phone calls with members of the same gang — whom Pence called a “gaggle of crackpot lawyers” — are similarly fair game.

After the debate, in small gaggles with reporters, both Schiff and Garvey came back to another politician not in the room: Trumpov.

Over the weekend, a gaggle of media establishment figures lost their collective crackers at the news that Vice President Kamala Harris sat down with podcaster Alexandra Cooper for an episode of “Call Her Daddy.”