"Garner" this, pal

From The Hill:

The Inquirer/Times/Siena poll also found Vice President Harris leading former President Trump by 4 points in Pennsylvania, with the vice president garnering 50 percent support to the former president’s 46 percent. Harris also topped Trump in the Franklin & Marshall poll by 4 points, with the vice president garnering 49 percent support when it came to Pennsylvania registered voters to the former president’s 45 percent support.

Rob's comment;

What do some editors and journalists have against plain old "get"? "Garner" is a word from junior high English when we learned about something called elegant variation. 

Some of us apparently learned that it's good writing to use longer, more pretentious words instead of shorter common words that mean the same thing.