{"id":1394901,"date":"2022-03-22T18:46:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T22:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394901"},"modified":"2022-03-22T18:47:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T22:47:04","slug":"democrat-steven-horsford-at-odds-with-wife-on-reelection-bid-after-having-long-standing-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-steven-horsford-at-odds-with-wife-on-reelection-bid-after-having-long-standing-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Steven Horsford at Odds with Wife On Reelection Bid After Having &#039;Long-Standing Affair&#039;"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fdemocrat-steven-horsford-at-odds-with-wife-on-reelection-bid-after-having-long-standing-affair%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=1394901&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><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Nevada Democrat Rep.\u00a0Steven Horsford appears to be at odds with his wife now that he is running for reelection after admitting in 2020 to having a\u00a0\u201clong-standing affair\u201d with a former Congressional intern for former Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV).<\/p>\n<p>In a series of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drsonyadouglass\/status\/1505522451647713287?s=20&#038;t=l7GONapmXrWPOVKrwCD8Fw\">social media<\/a>\u00a0posts over the weekend, Horsford\u2019s wife, Dr.\u00a0Sonya Douglass, said she would \u201c<span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">not be silent\u201d this election season after she claims to have been silent over the past two years \u2014 while she suffers from the congressman admitting to the\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">affair with\u00a0Gabriela Linder, the former Reid intern and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>podcaster.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cI have remained silent for nearly two years and want it to be clear that I am not enjoying the pain that my children and I continue to suffer,\u201d she wrote. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201c@StevenHorsford\u00a0told me the day after Mother\u2019s Day about his 10-year affair AFTER already speaking to his staff and attorneys,\u201d\u00a0Douglass wrote, claiming that she was not in the loop and was only told of the affair by her husband of nearly 20 years after everyone he works for found out.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">In one post she appeared to be at odds with Horsford about running for reelection instead of retiring from the House and allowing his family to recover from what happened two years ago.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201c<\/span><\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">And that he would choose to file for re-election and force us to endure yet another season of living through the sordid details of the <\/span>#horsfordaffair<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> with <\/span>#mistressforcongress<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> rather than granting us the time and space to heal as a family.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cWe did not ask to be put in public life and were simply supporting <\/span><\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">@StevenHorsford\u00a0<\/span>because that\u2019s what we understood family to be and do,\u201d she wrote, appearing to plead her case to be left alone. \u201cWe just want to heal and live the amazing lives we\u2019ve been destined to live, free of lies, manipulation, and unbridled ambition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the\u00a0<em>Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/Hcy5w#selection-2805.0-2805.24\">reported<\/a> that\u00a0Horsford\u00a0acknowledged the \u201clong-standing affair\u201d with\u00a0Linder, who\u00a0detailed her relationship with Horsford in a podcast series \u2014\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/podcasts\/mistress-for-congress-36975\">Mistress for<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/podcasts\/mistress-for-congress-36975\"> Congress<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2014 and released screenshots of their messages on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>At the time,\u00a0Horsford,\u00a0acknowledging the affair, released a statement from his congressional office stating,\u00a0\u201cIt is true that I had a previous relationship outside of my marriage, over the course of several years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m deeply sorry to all of those who have been impacted by this very poor decision, most importantly my wife and family. Out of concern for my family during this challenging time, I ask that our privacy is respected,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Horsford, who is married and has three children, <a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2020\/05\/21\/horsfords-extramarital-affair-with-former-senate-staffer-shows-how-narrow-house-rules-are\/\">began<\/a> the affair in 2009, and it occasionally\u00a0continued throughout the years until it ended in 2019. When the two met in 2009,\u00a0Horsford\u00a0was a 36-year-old state senator, and\u00a0Linder was a 21-year-old\u00a0college intern for\u00a0Reid, who was the Senate Majority Leader.<\/p>\n<p>The House Republican campaign arm, the\u00a0National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), released a statement saying the congressman should listen to his wife.\u00a0NRCC Spokeswoman Torunn Sinclair stated,\u00a0\u201cSteven Horsford should listen to his wife and end his campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nevada Democrat Rep.\u00a0Steven Horsford appears to be at odds with his wife now that he is running for reelection after admitting in 2020 to having a\u00a0\u201clong-standing affair\u201d with a former<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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-1394901","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\/1394901","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394901\/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=1394901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}