{"id":1499928,"date":"2022-06-01T14:15:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1499928"},"modified":"2022-06-01T14:15:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:15:37","slug":"dem-apologizes-for-lying-on-dating-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-apologizes-for-lying-on-dating-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Apologizes for Lying on Dating Apps"},"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\">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%2Fdem-apologizes-for-lying-on-dating-apps%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=1499928&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>A Democratic congressional candidate in a battleground race apologized on Wednesday for lying on dating apps to make himself appear 11 years younger, saying he &#8220;made a mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>California assemblyman Rudy Salas listed his age on Tinder and Bumble as 34, though he is actually 45 years old, <a href=\"https:\/\/sjvsun.com\/news\/politics\/salas-comes-clean-on-11-year-age-gap-on-dating-apps-i-made-a-mistake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the <em>San Joaquin Valley Sun<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Salas, whom national Democrats tapped to run against incumbent Republican representative David Valadao for the highly competitive seat, confirmed that he listed a false age on the apps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I made a mistake,&#8221; Salas told the <em>Sun<\/em>. &#8220;It won&#8217;t happen again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Salas&#8217;s move is a common tactic for online daters seeking to date much younger people who might not otherwise be interested in them, according to experts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Men have traditionally dated women a few years younger, but now they aren&#8217;t getting a look in. Dating apps have made people more selective, so men are tweaking their ages to boost their opportunities,&#8221; dating coach James Preece <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2018\/11\/23\/why-do-men-lie-about-their-age-on-dating-apps-8170382\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> <em>Metro.co.uk<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Salas described himself on Tinder as a &#8220;World Traveler.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lets smile, laugh and enjoy the journey of life bc let&#8217;s face it it&#8217;s better together than alone. Never married,&#8221; he wrote, adding emojis of an airplane, headphones, a taco, a basketball player, and a Pisces sign.<\/p>\n<p>In his Bumble profile, Salas listed his favorite qualities as &#8220;Honesty, Loyalty &#038; a Good heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that his &#8220;zombie apocalypse plan&#8221; is to &#8220;Live out the apocalypse and rebuild society\u2026 and do some fun **** along the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in March added Salas to its &#8220;Red to Blue&#8221; program, which provides funding to candidates who the party believes have a chance of flipping Republican-held seats this year.<\/p>\n<p>The National Republican Congressional Committee slammed Salas at the time, calling him a &#8220;big disappointment&#8221; to his party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He botched his campaign rollout, his press interviews are a nightmare, and he won&#8217;t take a position on anything. The DCCC&#8217;s star is about to implode,&#8221; NRCC spokeswoman Torunn Sinclair <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bakersfield.com\/news\/salas-added-to-democrats-red-to-blue-campaign-program\/article_339ef988-a0a9-11ec-9381-57dc19bd9890.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the <em>Bakersfield Californian<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Democratic congressional candidate in a battleground race apologized on Wednesday for lying on dating apps to make himself appear 11 years younger, saying he &#8220;made a mistake.&#8221; California assemblyman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":1894315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499928","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\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}