STAFFORD, Va. (AP) — A Virginia woman says she received more than 13,000 text messages and 600 calls after C-SPAN accidentally plastered her number on TV during the presidential debate. 
 
 Media outlets report that 26-year-old Tripp Diaz of Stafford began receiving a barrage of texts Monday evening because C-SPAN had just put her number on TV, asking viewers to call and text to comment on the candidates' debate performances. C-SPAN spokesman Howard Mortman says they got it wrong and they've apologized to Diaz. 
 
 The presidential debate was the most watched in history, with more than 84 million viewers. 
 
 Diaz says she's already made up her mind about who she's voting for, so the comments she got aren't influencing her decision — they're just driving her crazy. 
 
 Luckily, Diaz says, she has unlimited text messaging. ||||| In order to get in touch with Tripp Diaz these days, callers have to email her in advance. That way, Diaz knows it isn't a random person wishing to discuss their feelings about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. 
 
 "I have no idea what happened," Diaz says, but somehow C-SPAN posted her number on screen during the channel's debate coverage coverage, alongside ways to contact them through Facebook and Twitter. Her phone instantly became unusable thanks to the ensuing flood of calls and texts. 
 
 Diaz, a bartender at Eatbar on Barracks Row, was having an utterly uneventful night at home on Monday. She already made up her mind about who she is going to vote for in November and didn't want to watch the candidates bicker. "I was being a horrible citizen and watching American Horror Story instead," Diaz says. The nightmare was still to come, though. 
 
 Around 11 p.m., she stared at her phone, completely bewildered, as it blew up with calls and texts. It was so constant that Diaz's girlfriend had trouble getting through. 
 
 When a friend's sister shared a screenshot from C-SPAN, Diaz finally realized what had happened and why so many people were itching to tell her their political affiliations. C-SPAN has not responded to a request for comment as to how the mishap occured. 
 
 Diaz went to sleep with 7,900 texts awaiting her, and woke up on Tuesday to another 4,500. In total, she's "missed" more than 400 calls. It's given her a window into what the American electorate is thinking. 
 
 Though the overwhelming consensus has been that Clinton won the debate (whatever that means nowadays), most of the responses that Diaz actually read were from Trump supporters. But she thinks that there was a selection bias at work, given that she generally opened the ones that seemed funny. 
 
 "The Clinton ones were rather reasonable. Their text messages were boring like 'I'm Jen from Florida and I support Hillary,' " Diaz says. "They’re just reasonable humans." A registered Democrat in Virginia, she says, "I think that we have to choose between two at the bottom of the barrel right now, but I'm obviously voting for Hillary." 
 
 Some of the messages have been amusing. Others have been sad—like Doug, who now realizes the number he has been relentlessly texting isn't C-SPAN but just wants to talk to someone, anyone, anyway. 
 
 "People all across the country they were texting me," Diaz says. "One guy gave me his whole entire address and said I’m voting for Trump." 
 
 Many have been riddled with the same toxic sexism and racism of Trump's campaign. "I was taken aback by a lot of comments," Diaz says. She largely didn't respond because she didn't want make the flow of messages even worse, though a couple of times she sent back #VoteTripp. 
 
 Even this afternoon, Diaz is still getting texts and calls, most recently someone who dialed in to say "This is for C-SPAN and I support Trump cuz I don't give a fuck about [N-word]." It's been traumatic for her to hear and see (including graphically photoshopped images of Clinton), but there is little recourse. 
 
 Verizon told her she's unlikely to face any additional charges since she has unlimited texts and didn't answer the calls. "I’m probably just going to change my number," Diaz says, thanks to the "the fools who sit and respond to C-SPAN."
– A Virginia woman received more than 13,000 text messages and 600 calls after C-SPAN accidentally plastered her number on TV during the presidential debate, reports AP. Bartender Tripp Diaz of Stafford, 26, began receiving a barrage of texts Monday night because C-SPAN put up her number and asked viewers to comment on the candidates' performances, reports DCist. C-SPAN spokesman Howard Mortman says the network got it wrong and has apologized to Diaz, who wasn't even watching the political spectacle. Not helping: The debate was the most watched in history, with more than 84 million viewers.