{"id":1684474,"date":"2022-10-12T05:05:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T09:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1684474"},"modified":"2022-10-12T05:05:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T09:05:48","slug":"the-lifelong-republican-featured-in-latest-angie-craig-ad-actually-votes-as-a-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-lifelong-republican-featured-in-latest-angie-craig-ad-actually-votes-as-a-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Lifelong Republican\u2019 Featured In Latest Angie Craig Ad Actually Votes As a Democrat"},"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%2Fthe-lifelong-republican-featured-in-latest-angie-craig-ad-actually-votes-as-a-democrat%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=1684474&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 class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Man also can\u2019t vote for Angie Craig\u2014because he doesn\u2019t live in her district<\/p>\n<p>   Rep. Angie Craig (Getty Images)   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/joseph-simonson\/\" title=\"Posts by Joseph Simonson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Joseph Simonson<\/a> \u2022 October 12, 2022 5:00 am  <\/p>\n<p>A Minnesota Democrat desperate to convince voters that she has cross-party appeal hopes enlisting a Republican who doesn\u2019t live in her district and voted in the 2020 Democratic primary could help her case.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Angie Craig, who is facing a tough reelection race against Republican Tyler Kistner in Minnesota&#8217;s Second Congressional District, released an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1WYMl7LsIHU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ad<\/a> featuring a man who calls himself a Minnesota native and &#8220;lifelong Republican.&#8221; That man, David Vesledahl, bashes Kistner and praises Craig\u2019s votes in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Dave called me to share his story, I promised him that I would continue to do everything in my power to lower prescription drug costs for Minnesotans,&#8221; Craig said in a statement. &#8220;Everyone deserves access to high-quality, affordable health care\u2014and I\u2019ll be fighting back against the pharmaceutical companies every step of the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Vesledahl no longer lives in Craig\u2019s district since Minnesota redrew its congressional map this year. He lives in Nerstrand, Minn., which is located in the state\u2019s First Congressional District. Vesledahl&#8217;s claim that he\u2019s a &#8220;lifelong Republican&#8221; is also contradicted by the fact that he voted in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, according to voter files obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n<p>Craig\u2019s strategy is a familiar one to Democrats looking to ditch their party label amid President Joe Biden\u2019s poor approval ratings and a shaky economy. In Ohio, Rep. Tim Ryan (D.) <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/tim-ryan-celebrates-endorsement-from-republican-who-worked-for-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">courted<\/a> the support of a former Republican staffer who worked in the Obama administration and voted for Biden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Craig campaign acknowledged that Vesdehal lives in the neighboring second district, and therefore can\u2019t vote for Craig. The campaign defended its characterization of his political affiliation, saying it\u2019s how he &#8220;describes himself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dave describes himself as a lifelong Republican, and his voter file registers him as a \u2018Lean Republican,\u2019 Craig\u2019s spokeswoman told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Although Craig&#8217;s district voted for Biden by 7 points in 2020, Craig only received 48.2 percent of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Minnesota Democrat desperate to convince voters that she has cross-party appeal hopes enlisting a Republican who doesn\u2019t live in her district and voted in the 2020 Democratic primary could help her case.<br \/>\nThe post The \u2018Lifelong Republican\u2019 Featured In Latest Angie Craig Ad Actually Votes As a Democrat appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"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-1684474","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\/1684474","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\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684474\/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=1684474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}