DC bartender gets 13,000 texts, 400 calls after C-SPAN screw up

Published October 1, 2016 7:25pm ET



A Washington, D.C., bartender received 13,000 text messages from Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump supporters after C-SPAN mistakenly posted her phone number online.

DCist reported this week that Tripp Diaz, who works at Eatbar and wasn’t watching the debate, started receiving a blizzard of text messages and phone calls following Monday’s nights first presidential debate.

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