{"id":1714029,"date":"2022-10-27T17:19:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T21:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1714029"},"modified":"2022-10-27T17:19:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T21:19:29","slug":"in-closing-stretch-kathy-hochul-takes-a-page-out-of-terry-mcauliffes-losing-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-closing-stretch-kathy-hochul-takes-a-page-out-of-terry-mcauliffes-losing-playbook\/","title":{"rendered":"In Closing Stretch, Kathy Hochul Takes a Page Out of Terry McAuliffe\u2019s (Losing) Playbook"},"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%2Fin-closing-stretch-kathy-hochul-takes-a-page-out-of-terry-mcauliffes-losing-playbook%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=1714029&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\">Dem governor&#8217;s campaign resorts to shameless stunt as polls tighten in deep-blue New York<\/p>\n<p>    N.Y. Gov. Kathy Hochul (Getty Images)   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 October 27, 2022 5:03 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Last October, Democratic campaign staffers in Virginia shamelessly promoted an obvious hoax in an attempt to save their faltering boss, gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, from an upset loss. Almost a year to the day later, history is repeating itself in New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning, a rogue New York Post employee used the outlet&#8217;s publishing system to share fake and crude stories, including one that said New York Republican gubernatorial hopeful Lee Zeldin planned to sexually assault his Democratic opponent, incumbent Kathy Hochul. The Post quickly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost\/status\/1585629621521100801?s=20&#038;t=u8Mt165EbVuayahhBnpzXg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declared<\/a> it had &#8220;been hacked&#8221; and removed the fake content. For Hochul&#8217;s campaign, however, the case was not closed. Roughly an hour after the Post\u2018s explanation, Hochul spokeswoman Jen Goodman released a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jengoodman75\/status\/1585639490520895489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bizarre response<\/a> that appeared to present the hacked posts as legitimate, accused the outlet of using &#8220;violent, sexist rhetoric,&#8221; and issued a &#8220;demand&#8221; for &#8220;answers.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By taking the Post\u2018s hacked content at face value in an apparent attempt to prompt outrage, the Hochul campaign took a page out of McAuliffe&#8217;s playbook. In October 2021, McAuliffe&#8217;s campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/now\/mcauliffe-staffers-dems-pushed-lincoln-232238956.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promoted a fake white supremacist demonstration<\/a> at a Glenn Youngkin event as if it were real, using the bogus incident to call the Republican&#8217;s supporters racist. If Hochul and McAuliffe&#8217;s attempts to weaponize political stunts in their favor seem similar, that could be because Goodman was behind both of them. One year before she issued Hochul&#8217;s Post statement, the liberal operative\u2014who served as a McAuliffe communications aide at the time\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/mcauliffe-should-be-held-responsible-for-tiki-torch-stunt-because-his-campaign-thinks-candidates-are-responsible-for-supporters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> the sham neo-Nazi demonstration &#8220;disgusting&#8221; and &#8220;disqualifying&#8221; for Youngkin.<\/p>\n<p>But Goodman&#8217;s role in both ordeals is not the only similarity between Hochul and McAuliffe. In his 2021 race, McAuliffe entered October as the clear favorite to become Virginia&#8217;s next governor, holding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2021\/governor\/va\/virginia_governor_youngkin_vs_mcauliffe-7373.html#polls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clear polling lead<\/a> in a state President Joe Biden won by double digits in 2020. But those polls went on to tighten, prompting Democratic concern two weeks from Election Day that McAuliffe could lose a race he was expected to win easily. As a result, when McAuliffe&#8217;s staffers saw photos of the tiki torch-wielding attendees at Youngkin&#8217;s rally, they likely felt too desperate for a boost to ignore them.<\/p>\n<p>Almost exactly a year later, Hochul finds herself in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last October, Democratic campaign staffers in Virginia shamelessly promoted an obvious hoax in an attempt to save their faltering boss, gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, from an upset loss. Almost a year to the day later, history is repeating itself in New York.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe post In Closing Stretch, Kathy Hochul Takes a Page Out of Terry McAuliffe\u2019s (Losing) Playbook appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":1714032,"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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1714029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/1714029","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1714032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}