Posted on 10/24/2021 7:04:17 PM PDT by RandFan
The campaign of Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin took aim at comments made in 2019 by his opponent Terry McAuliffe, who shrugged off Gov. Ralph Northam’s blackface scandal as a "dumb mistake" months after calling on him to resign.
A new video ad by the Youngkin campaign highlights McAuliffe’s apparent flip-flopping on his view about the scandal, in which Northam, a Democrat, apologized for appearing in a yearbook photo showing a man in blackface and another in a KKK hood and robe. Northam later recanted his apology and denied being in the photo.
An investigation into the photo proved to be inconclusive, with investigators unable to determine whether or not the governor was in the picture. Democrats, including McAuliffe, called on Northam to resign but he refused.
The Youngkin ad released Saturday featured comments by McAuliffe, whom Northam endorsed, that were made only months apart. In February of 2019, McAuliffe called the photo "racist, unacceptable and inexcusable at any age," and said it didn’t matter if Northam was involved but that the photo itself should be enough for him to resign in order for the state to "move forward."
In July of that same year, CNN first reported, McAuliffe said during an interview in New York, "Listen, even if it had been him in the blackface, you know, it was a dumb mistake 40 years ago."
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Bam! Awesome!
Great issue, but confusing ad composition.
IMHO, he should stick to the school issue, that one seems to work towards awakening masses (suburban women) against the Dems. For whatever reason, dem’s are immune from blackface and hypocrisy arguments, dead end.
Yeah it goes on a bit long for most people I think.
They could have just scrapped having Don Lemon in it altogether. Then they could have taken four points where McAuliffe later contradicted himself on and narrated the hypocrisy to best effect. Anyway, the way they had it was hard to follow IMO.
Agree, if the democrat had cared about blackface,
Northam would be gone...Stick to the issue
about what McAuliffe said about parents not
having a say in their child’s education.
Ironically many of them moved from MD to avoid the brutal taxation there, only to vote for Dems who will repeat the same pattern, thus proving Democrats are by definition insane.
In February of 2019, McAuliffe called the photo "racist, unacceptable and inexcusable at any age," and said it didn’t matter if Northam was involved but that the photo itself should be enough for him to resign in order for the state to "move forward."
In July of that same year, CNN first reported, McAuliffe said during an interview in New York, "Listen, even if it had been him in the blackface, you know, it was a dumb mistake 40 years ago."
Oh, he had to resign because racism -- then it turned out that the black LG is a rapist.
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