Antonia Hitchens

So it can be incredibly disorienting.

Can you describe her home?

So Loomer conducts most of her work from home where she has her Rumble studio set up in a converted bedroom.

But once the lights go off in there, the rest of the home is just a normal home.

It's not kind of dressed up to be the home of

of a prominent figure in American life.

There are four dogs who are created to eat dinner so they don't fight over each other's food.

There were dog gates on most of the rooms to make sure the dogs were off the furniture.

The furniture had blankets on it for the dogs.

There's a home gym where she can walk on the treadmill while taking long phone calls, but her professional life very much takes place across the backdrop of a pretty casual domestic setting.

Having spent a little bit of time with her,

It seemed so obvious that she would name her dog Loomer.

I was almost surprised the others weren't named Loomer, but they came pre-named because they were rescued.

Why are you not surprised?

She's not subtle in the intensity with which she wants to cast herself as the main character in her life.

Having another creature in your home with your same name wouldn't be destabilizing so much as, I think, comforting.

Loomer has been very much keen to articulate to me over the course of my time reporting on her that she is a one-woman show.

She has no one working with her.

She has a

Capitol Hill correspondent who's in Washington kind of occasionally loomering members by just jumping out from behind a pole or something.