{"id":1465246,"date":"2022-05-05T14:15:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T18:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1465246"},"modified":"2022-05-05T14:15:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T18:15:12","slug":"democrats-republicans-agree-the-lincoln-project-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-republicans-agree-the-lincoln-project-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats, Republicans Agree: The Lincoln Project Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fdemocrats-republicans-agree-the-lincoln-project-sucks%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=1465246&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\">Neither side wants disgraced super PAC to get involved in Ohio Senate race<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t\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 May 5, 2022 2:10 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Democrats and Republicans might hate each other&#8217;s guts, but they can agree on at least one thing: The Lincoln Project sucks, and should stop meddling in the 2022 elections with its self-righteous &#8220;pro-democracy&#8221; nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pls no,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chevytothe_levy\/status\/1522210686620819456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> Izzy Levy, communications director for Tim Ryan, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Ohio, upon learning the Lincoln Project had identified the Ohio Senate contest as <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolnproject.us\/lincoln-project-releases-top-races-critical-to-american-democracys-survival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one<\/a> of &#8220;the most crucial races to the survival of democracy in the United States.&#8221;\u00a0Luke Thompson, an adviser to Ryan&#8217;s GOP challenger, J.D. Vance, immediately <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ltthompso\/status\/1522213439829065728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">concurred<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is understandable why Ryan&#8217;s campaign would not want the Lincoln Project to get involved in the Ohio Senate race. The <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/lincoln-project-sex-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scandal-<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/lincoln-project-quietly-pays-founder-who-quit-over-john-weaver-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plagued<\/a> super PAC has a proven track record of helping Republican candidates win elections in swing states. Last year, for example, the Lincoln Project played an instrumental role in Glenn Youngkin&#8217;s upset <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/gop-inclusion-trumps-neo-nazi-cosplay-in-race-to-succeed-blackface-democrat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">victory<\/a> over Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia gubernatorial election by forcing a bunch of interns to dress up as <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/terry-mcauliffe-tiki-torch-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">neo-Nazis<\/a> and harass Youngkin at a rain-soaked campaign event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-3 text-red font-serif text-xl md:text-4xl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/lincoln-project-endorsement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ENDORSEMENT: The Lincoln Project in 2022<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the Lincoln Project <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> $12 million attempting to defeat incumbent GOP senators in seven key races. Republicans went 7-0 in those contests. But even if Vance is certain to benefit from the super PAC&#8217;s involvement in the Ohio Senate race, that doesn&#8217;t mean Republicans don&#8217;t consider the Lincoln Project and the schlubs who run it to be <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/lincoln-project-steve-schmidt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incredibly<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/rick-wilson-russia-hero\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">obnoxious<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the super PAC schlubs\u00a0are so annoying they managed to get Republicans to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/11\/07\/aoc-slams-lincoln-project-def-in-scam-territory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agree<\/a> with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), the socialist <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/socialist-tesla-whole-foods\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tesla owner<\/a>\u00a0who denounced the Lincoln Project as a &#8220;scam.&#8221; (Fact check: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/08\/us\/politics\/lincoln-project-weaver.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">True<\/a>.) The super PAC might not have much to show for itself in terms of electoral success, but its founding members were able to pay off substantial <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/rick-wilton-taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tax debts<\/a> after raising tens of millions of dollars from wealthy liberal donors in 2020. Founder Steve Schmidt <a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2021\/02\/lincoln-project-toxic-workplace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> he saw the Lincoln Project as a vehicle by which to achieve &#8220;generational wealth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apart from its inability to defeat Republicans in elections, the Lincoln Project is best known for aiding and abetting the sexual predation of founding member <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/john-weaver-mortgage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Weaver<\/a>, who sent suggestive messages to dozens of young men and at least one 14-year-old child.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics Neither side wants disgraced super PAC to get involved in Ohio Senate race  Andrew Stiles \u2022 May 5, 2022 2:10 pm Democrats and Republicans might<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465246","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\/1465246","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=1465246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465246\/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=1465246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}