GOP spokesperson repeatedly calls nurse-turned-Democratic lawmaker a 'fake nurse' — and gets buried on Twitter

On Friday, National Republican Congressional Committee spokesperson Carly Atchison took aim at freshman Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL), claiming that her prescription drug pricing bill "has no chance of passage in the Senate" and is only intended to "score her political points!"

But what caught the eye of many people on Twitter was how she headlined her release: "Fake Nurse Lauren puts campaign before patients."

Underwood, who last year defeated incumbent Republican Randy Hultgren, is a registered nurse with a Master of Science in Nursing and Master of Public Health degrees from Johns Hopkins University. She has worked as a research nurse at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, and served as a health care policy adviser to Health and Human Services secretaries Kathleen Sebelius and Sylvia Burwell. She is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a "fake nurse."

Despite this thorough lashing on Twitter, Atchison doubled down on Saturday morning and once again tweeted that Underwood was a "fake nurse" — with a similar response: