Posted on 10/29/2021 5:59:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
As a general rule, when you’re plotting to have a story killed by a news organization, it’s best not to include the news organization in your email chain. Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe’s team learned this the hard way when they discussed a story they wanted to “kill” and accidentally cc’d the reporter requesting comment.
It all started when a report broke that McAuliffe was hiring Marc Elias, a Hillary Clinton operative who specializes in stealing elections for Democrats. Paying him $60,000 was bad optics for a campaign that has been fading quickly due to an onslaught of electoral missteps by McAuliffe down the homestretch. Hiring Elias is an admission that the campaign believes they will lose, so when requests for comment started coming in, the campaign panicked.
According to Fox News [emphasis added]:
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley wrote that McAuliffe hiring Elias is an “astonishing move.”
“There are a host of election lawyers but McAuliffe selected an attorney accused of lying to the media, advancing rejected conspiracy theories, and currently involved in a major federal investigation that has already led to the indictment of his former partner,” Turley wrote.
“McAuliffe may be preparing to challenge any win by Republican Glenn Youngkin,” he wrote on Twitter.
Fox News reached out to the McAuliffe campaign for comment on Turley’s suggestion. McAuliffe spoksperson Christina Freundlich responded to the email with a message apparently meant for colleagues, not for Fox News.
“Can we try to kill this,” Freundlich wrote.
“To dispute the challenges of the election,” she clarified, ostensibly responding to an email that did not go through to Fox News.
The McAuliffe campaign did not give any response to Fox News on the record.
Both McAuliffe and his Republican opponent, Glenn Youngkin, have pledged to “absolutely” accept the results of the election once certified.
Yet Turley raised concerns because McAuliffe has embraced Stacey Abrams’ claims about the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race.
Oops! If McAuliffe plans to accept the results of the race, why would he hire a man whose entire career has been built on challenging election results? Is he so concerned about a “stolen” election that he’s willing to challenge it in court? It seems that’s the case, and it seems his campaign is making critical mistakes in the final days of the campaign, just like their boss.
Virginia is considered a bellwether for the upcoming midterm elections. Democrats have been winning in the state in recent elections, including McAuliffe himself winning the gubernatorial races in 2014 and 2016. But with Republican opponent Glenn Youngkin skyrocketing to an 8% lead days before the election, the McAuliffe campaign has been struggling to stop the bleeding.
Terry McAuliffe is a bumbling fool who is completely out of touch with the people of Virginia. It appears he hires people who share his traits.
So? We know they do it. They know they do it. And they don’t care. The public only knows what fb and their TV tells them.
Yup.
You couldn't beat the stupid out of a republican with a ball bat.
Never underestimate commies. Biden had no problem bumbling in.
The real message here should be to take care to watch out for fraud, in spite of the "pledge" not to challenge results.
The McAuliffe internals must be apocalyptic. To be planning to cheat after the loss? Wow. He must be down double digits.
True, but it might be fun to try.
oh you are sending the Wolf? Thats all you had to say man!
Down double digits or not, Stacey Abrams is already set to working manufacturing the necessary margins. That person NEVER concedes. Of course McAuliffe is willing to “accept” the outcome. The books are all ready to be cooked.
Virginia a bellweather?
Northern Deep Blue Virginia would be a better analysis, with pockets thoughout the state, usually in high density urban and long term established suburban sprawl that is frothing beyond that... but needn’t dense packing existing infrastructure would contain the sprawl and save some of the state for a few generations...
Until DC moves to KC.
Can you imagine that exodus?
We hope the VA voters don't share his traits.
McAwful payed for a political vote fixer to break legs. Typical.
Paid for. /sigh
(“There are a host of election lawyers but McAuliffe selected an attorney accused of lying to the media, advancing rejected conspiracy theories, and currently involved in a major federal investigation that has already led to the indictment of his former partner,” Turley wrote.)
Actually not surprising that McAuliffe would do this. It’s exactly what we would expect from him.
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