{"id":1500218,"date":"2022-06-01T16:44:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T20:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500218"},"modified":"2022-06-01T16:44:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T20:44:51","slug":"swipe-left-dem-congressional-candidate-apologizes-after-fudging-age-on-tinder-bumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swipe-left-dem-congressional-candidate-apologizes-after-fudging-age-on-tinder-bumble\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Swipe Left\u2019: Dem Congressional Candidate Apologizes After Fudging Age On Tinder, Bumble"},"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%2Fswipe-left-dem-congressional-candidate-apologizes-after-fudging-age-on-tinder-bumble%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=1500218&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--><p>A California state Democratic lawmaker has apologized after a report said that he had fudged his age by over 10 years on a dating app.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sjvsun.com\/news\/politics\/salas-comes-clean-on-11-year-age-gap-on-dating-apps-i-made-a-mistake\/\">report<\/a> from the The San Joaquin Valley Sun detailed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/california\">California<\/a> state assemblyman and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/congress\">Congressional<\/a> candidate Rudy Salas (D-Bakersfield) had said he was 11 years younger than his actual age on multiple dating apps, according to screenshots obtained by the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made a mistake,\u201d Salas said in a statement to the Sun confirming he had misrepresented his age. \u201cIt won\u2019t happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The screenshots obtained by the outlet show that multiple of the 45-year-old congressional candidate\u2019s dating profiles said that he was 34. Salas reportedly had both Tinder and Bumble profiles.<\/p>\n<p>Salas will face off in a primary for California\u2019s 22nd congressional district against Rep. David Valadao (R-CA), \u00a0Republican Chris Mathys, a Fresno city councilman, and Adam Medeiros, a trustee for the Kings County Board of Education. First and second place in the primary will then compete in the November general.<\/p>\n<p>Valadao, who has represented the 21st district,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\/news\/politics\/your-local-elections\/this-central-valley-congressional-district-is-one-of-the-most-competitive-in-the-nation-whats-influencing-the-race\/\">earned<\/a> criticism from some Republicans for his vote to impeach former President Trump in 2021. Rival Mathys has made his support of Trump key in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathyscongress.com\/\">pitch<\/a> to voters.<\/p>\n<p>Cally Perkins, the press secretary of the Congressional Leadership Fund, a Super PAC devoted to getting Republicans in Congress, said that voters should \u201cswipe left\u201d on Salas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Rudy Salas can\u2019t be trusted on something as simple as his age, then clearly he can\u2019t be trusted to represent Californians in Congress,\u201d Perkins said. \u201cThis is just one more reason for voters to \u2018swipe left\u2019 on Rudy Salas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Salas has been in the California assembly since 2012, and his campaign page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudysalas.com\/\">says<\/a> that he \u201chas been a steadfast voice for the Valley in the state capitol, fighting for more public safety funding, expanding workforce development programs, expanding veterans\u2019 and workers\u2019 rights, clean water infrastructure and support for our small business community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/redistricting-2022-maps\/california\/\">FiveThirtyEight<\/a>, newly-drawn California district 22 leans +10 Democratic. However, the seat could be competitive depending on midterm turnout and enthusiasm levels in November. The 22nd district used to lean Republican before redistricting.<\/p>\n<p>According to some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\/news\/politics\/your-local-elections\/this-central-valley-congressional-district-is-one-of-the-most-competitive-in-the-nation-whats-influencing-the-race\/\">reports<\/a>, the race in the district is considered a \u201ctoss up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a Democrat-leaning district, but in the past, Republican turnout in the district has been very high and surpassed Democratic turnout,\u201d said Neel Sannappa, a Democratic political analyst. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California state Democratic lawmaker has apologized after a report said that he had fudged his age by over 10 years on a dating app. The report from the The San Joaquin Valley Sun detailed that California state assemblyman and Congressional candidate Rudy Salas (D-Bakersfield) had said he was 11 years younger than his actual &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1500255,"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-1500218","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\/1500218","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\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1500255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}