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Sympthsical

(9,073 posts)
5. They screwed up hard in VA last week.
Wed Nov 3, 2021, 02:29 AM
Nov 2021

I mean, I've always disliked them. Pulling in those eight figures amongst themselves, friends, and family while making low budget videos that play entirely to their partisan online donor base. It's a grift, IMO. Pretty good one at that.

But, very short story. LP perpetuated a hoax where white supremacists stood outside Younkin's campaign bus with tiki torches. The media and McAuliffe's campaign reacted as if it were 100% true and went, "See? This is who supports Youngkin!"

However, once a Vice reporter ID'd one of the "supremacists" as a Democrat and told the LP they were going to out them, the LP came out and admitted it was them.

No one was amused. The McAuliffe campaign condemned them, but the damage was done.

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