{"id":1708153,"date":"2022-10-23T19:03:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T23:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1708153"},"modified":"2022-10-23T19:03:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T23:03:22","slug":"vulnerable-democrat-tries-to-use-tulsi-gabbard-to-tie-her-opponent-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vulnerable-democrat-tries-to-use-tulsi-gabbard-to-tie-her-opponent-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulnerable Democrat Tries To Use Tulsi Gabbard To Tie Her Opponent To Russia"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fvulnerable-democrat-tries-to-use-tulsi-gabbard-to-tie-her-opponent-to-russia%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=1708153&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>Vulnerable Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) made an attempt on Saturday to use former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (HI) \u2014 who recently severed ties with the Democratic Party \u2014 to tie her Republican opponent to Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/i-will-do-the-campaigning-myself-democrat-rep-wont-ask-biden-to-join-her-on-the-trail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spanberger<\/a> shared a photo of Gabbard standing with congressional hopeful Yesli Vega (R-VA) \u2014 who is running to unseat Spanberger \u2014 and claimed that Vega shared the former 2020 presidential candidate\u2019s support with both Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin, Syria\u2019s Bashar al-Assad, and Yesli Vega have in common?\u201d Spanberger asked before providing the answer to her own question: \u201cTulsi Gabbard supports them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What do Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin, Syria\u2019s Bashar al-Assad, and Yesli Vega have in common?<\/p>\n<p>Tulsi Gabbard supports them. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oBfU0ijtKT\">pic.twitter.com\/oBfU0ijtKT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Abigail Spanberger (@SpanbergerVA07) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpanbergerVA07\/status\/1583909466059046913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spanberger has a tenuous hold on her seat in Virginia\u2019s 7th Congressional District \u2014 a seat once held by former Congressmen Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Dave Brat (R-VA). The seat is currently labeled a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/house\/elections-map.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">toss-up<\/a>\u201d on the latest congressional projection map posted by RealClearPolitics.<\/p>\n<p>Spanberger has been vocal in the past about the fact that her district is relatively moderate, complaining to Democratic leadership that radical progressive slogans like \u201cDefund the Police\u201d put members like herself at risk as they try to hold onto their slim majority in November\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>But her attempt to tie Vega to Russia and Syria caught some backlash, and critics responded but suggesting it might be a bit of a reach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do Spanberger and Nancy Pelosi have in common?\u201d Caleb Max asked, answering, \u201cEverything because Spanberger votes 100% party line. #notamoderate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What do Spanberger and Nancy Pelosi have in common? <\/p>\n<p>Everything because Spanberger votes 100% party line. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/notamoderate?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#notamoderate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Caleb Max (@CalebMaxVA10) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalebMaxVA10\/status\/1583915815153586177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCheap shot. McCarthyism from our new Security State,\u201d former White House reporter Jim Stinson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimstinson\/status\/1583990221753810944\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Spanberger\u2019s attack on Gabbard echoes accusations made by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who attempted to paint Gabbard as a \u201cRussian asset\u201d on several occasions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not making any predictions, but I think they\u2019ve got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate,\u201d Clinton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/10\/18\/politics\/hillary-clinton-tulsi-gabbard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> during the 2020 primary. \u201cShe\u2019s the favorite of the Russians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard, it should be noted, likely fueled some discontent in Clinton\u2019s camp during the 2016 election when she <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/ex-dnc-official-they-warned-me-not-turn-hillary-aaron-bandler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resigned her leadership role<\/a> in the Democratic National Committee in order to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) over Clinton in the primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vulnerable Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) made an attempt on Saturday to use former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (HI) \u2014 who recently severed ties with the Democratic Party \u2014 to tie her Republican opponent to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Spanberger shared a photo of Gabbard standing with congressional hopeful Yesli Vega (R-VA) \u2014 who is running &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1708156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1708153","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1708156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}