As Twitchy reported Friday, a small group of “Glenn Youngkin supporters” showed up at a campaign event in Charlottesville (in sunglasses, in the rain) to pose with tiki-torches while standing in line in front of Youngkin’s campaign bus. It was obviously fake, and the Lincoln Project has taken “credit” for the stunt.
In my capacity as a communications consultant, I worked w @ProjectLincoln to coordinate today's Youngkin action in Charlottesville. I join them in the fight to defend our democracy from rightwing extremists and call for Glenn Youngkin to denounce Trump’s ‘very fine people.
— Lauren Windsor (@lawindsor) October 29, 2021
As Twitchy reported earlier, people are taking issue with Reuters World’s tweet saying the stunt was the effort of a group of anti-Trump Republicans, aka the Lincoln Project. The Washington Free Beacon’s Matthew Foldi has a great thread exposing the effort to pin the stunt on a “Republican” group.
https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1454544256476065792
https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1454544262167683073
Lauren Windsor is executive director of American Family Voices — hardly a Republican organization.
https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1454544265284042766
https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1454544268597600258
https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1454544271617531913
https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1454544274666762253
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https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1454544279133687808
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https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1454544285882327046
https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1454544289640353795
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https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1454544294447095809
https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1454544297538301958
https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1454544300075855874
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https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1454544307734646784
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https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1454544312327344132
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https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1454544318090420227
https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1454544320237867011
https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1454544322293075973
https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1454544324516106240
https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1454544555345432576
https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1454544622714298373
What a shock! They were an anti-Trump group, but after Biden won, they still had to keep the money coming in somehow, so they’ve been campaigning for Democrats ever since. But yeah, they’re a “Republican” group.
Related:
REPORT: The Lincoln Project has spent $279,000 boosting Terry McAuliffe's campaign this cycle https://t.co/7v4rcCu30e
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 29, 2021
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