![]() “I was like, there he is, he’s wearing my mittens. That’s when she saw the camera zoom in on Sanders and the mittens she had made for him. As soon as I walked in the door, my partner was like, ‘You’re not going to believe this.’” “It was a huge blizzard yesterday up here in Vermont, so it took me forever. “As soon as I was done with my remote teaching, I hopped in my car and drove home,” she said. ![]() In just a few hours after the photo of the mittens went viral, Ellis had thousands of emails either requesting interviews with her or inquiring about how they too could get some mittens like “Bernie's.”Įllis says she was actually one of the last to know that Sanders wore the mittens, as she was teaching during the inauguration. ![]() “I think my Gmail has crashed now,” she told Slate. Bernie Sanders that he wore in a pic from this week’s inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris that went viral. Now she’s getting thousands of emails a day asking for mittens like the ones she made for Sen. A week ago, Jen Ellis of Essex Junction, Vt., was living her normal life as a schoolteacher with her partner, Liz, and their daughter.
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