{"id":1217005,"date":"2022-01-14T16:50:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T21:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217005"},"modified":"2022-01-14T16:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T21:50:13","slug":"lincoln-project-humiliated-after-new-york-times-calls-failed-super-pac-defunct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lincoln-project-humiliated-after-new-york-times-calls-failed-super-pac-defunct\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Project HUMILIATED After New York Times Calls Failed Super PAC \u2018Defunct\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flincoln-project-humiliated-after-new-york-times-calls-failed-super-pac-defunct%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217005&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/\">Politics<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">The group is still active despite scandals and continues to help Republicans win elections<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lincoln-project-rip.png\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lincoln-project-rip.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lincoln-project-rip-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lincoln-project-rip-700x450.png 700w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/>\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 January 14, 2022 4:40 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Lincoln Project, a disgraced Democratic super PAC best known for <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/lincoln-project-weaver-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enabling<\/a> a child predator, has become so irrelevant in American politics that the nation&#8217;s preeminent newspaper assumed it no longer exists. How embarrassing.<\/p>\n<p><em>New York Times<\/em> editor Blake Hounshell was forced to add a correction to Thursday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/13\/us\/politics\/anti-trump-republicans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">edition<\/a> of the &#8220;On Politics&#8221; newsletter, which examined the divergent views of so-called anti-Trump Republicans heading into the 2022 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mea culpa, folks,&#8221; Hounshell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blakehounshell\/status\/1481830224568401921\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter. He also posted a screenshot of the correction, which read: &#8220;A previous version of the newsletter on Thursday misstated the status of the Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump group. The group is active, not defunct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Lincoln Project was humiliated by the error, obviously, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProjectLincoln\/status\/1481815573877116930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responded<\/a> by lashing out on Twitter. The group accused the <em>Times<\/em> of &#8220;journalistic malpractice&#8221; for &#8220;referring to one of the leading and most active organizations in the pro-democracy movement as \u2018defunct.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the error went unnoticed at the <em>Times<\/em> before publication is indicative of the Lincoln Project&#8217;s rapidly diminishing relevance. The super PAC&#8217;s most significant accomplishment of the 2021 election cycle, for example, was <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/terry-mcauliffe-tiki-torch-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">orchestrating<\/a> one of the dumbest and most counterproductive political stunts in recent memory.<\/p>\n<p>In late October 2021, just days before the Virginia gubernatorial election, the Lincoln Project claimed credit for forcing five sad interns to stand in the rain and do neo-Nazi cosplay at a campaign event for Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin. &#8220;We&#8217;re all in for Glenn,&#8221; the cosplayers shouted while holding unlit tiki torches in front of Youngkin&#8217;s campaign bus in Charlottesville, Va.<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin went on to score a decisive victory over the Lincoln Project&#8217;s preferred candidate, Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe. It was merely the most recent example of a Republican winning an election in which the Lincoln Project was actively supporting the Democratic candidate. In 2020, for example, the super PAC <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/biggest-losers-lincoln-themed-liberal-super-pac-goes-0-7-in-key-senate-races\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spent<\/a> almost $12 million in support of Democrats in seven key Senate races. Republicans won all seven races\u2014five of them by a margin of at least 8 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> formally <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/lincoln-project-endorsement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endorsed<\/a> the Lincoln Project in the 2022 midterm cycle, citing the disgraced super PAC&#8217;s proven track record of helping elect Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>The Lincoln Project rose to prominence in 2020 by <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/lincoln-project-enemies-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raising<\/a> almost $100 million from left-wing billionaires and other dark money organizations. Despite the group&#8217;s lack of political success, its founders were able to pay off hundreds of thousands of dollars&#8217; worth of <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/rick-wilton-taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">back taxes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/lincoln-project-founder-paid-off-mortgage-days-after-nyt-reported-on-weaver-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mortgages<\/a>, and other debts.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics The group is still active despite scandals and continues to help Republicans win elections  Andrew Stiles \u2022 January 14, 2022 4:40 pm The Lincoln &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}