{"id":564378,"date":"2021-06-15T11:37:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T15:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=564378"},"modified":"2021-06-15T11:37:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T15:37:27","slug":"virginia-dem-candidate-mcauliffe-says-critical-race-theory-criticism-is-right-wing-conspiracy-totally-made-up-by-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-dem-candidate-mcauliffe-says-critical-race-theory-criticism-is-right-wing-conspiracy-totally-made-up-by-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Dem Candidate McAuliffe Says Critical Race Theory Criticism Is \u2018Right-Wing Conspiracy \u2026 Totally Made Up\u2019 By Trump"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fvirginia-dem-candidate-mcauliffe-says-critical-race-theory-criticism-is-right-wing-conspiracy-totally-made-up-by-trump%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=564378&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-513148692.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Terry McAuliffe, the former head of the Democratic National Committee (2001-05), co-chair of Bill Clinton\u2019s 1996 re-election campaign, chair of Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2008 presidential campaign, and current Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Virginia, stated that criticism of critical race theory amounted to a \u201cright-wing conspiracy\u201d that was \u201ctotally made up\u201d by former President Trump and current GOP Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin.<\/p>\n<p>Audio obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/mcauliffe-critical-race-theory-right-wing-conspiracy\">Fox News<\/a> revealed a woman asking McAuliffe, \u201cI was just wondering \u2013 with all of the Republicans talking about critical race theory, and they\u2019re making this huge deal about it, and it\u2019s all of the conversation with the news in Virginia. What are you going to say to all of those people making education about that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McAuliffe responded, \u201cThat\u2019s another right-wing conspiracy. This is totally made up by Donald Trump and Glenn Youngkin. This is who they are. It\u2019s a conspiracy theory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asra Nomani, who leads the anti-CRT group Coalition for TJ and stated that she\u2019s a registered Democrat, told Fox News, \u201cMr. McAuliffe insults parents by dismissing their sincere concerns as \u2018another right-wing\u00a0conspiracy.\u2019 It\u2019s arrogant and out-of-touch with reality. Across Virginia, Mr. McAuliffe needs to understand students are being divided as \u2018oppressors\u2019 and \u2018oppressed,\u2019 shamed for having \u2018white privilege\u2019 and belittled for achieving merit. Asian students are being told they aren\u2019t the right kind of minority. \u2026 Democrats in Virginia risk losing the votes of many parents if they continue to try to gaslight us. We are educated about the divisive ideology of critical race theory, and we don\u2019t want it in our schools. Teachers need to educate, not indoctrinate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In May, Youngkin told Fox News, \u201cIt just seems that Terry McAuliffe and the left, liberal Democrats here want to take our education policy from having everybody in the fast lane to putting everybody in the broken down lane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin\u2019s spokesperson Macaulay Porter added, \u201cCritical race theory is not a political game or talking point to Virginians. Terry should tell that to the parents, teachers, and students in Loudoun County, Fairfax, and across the Commonwealth who are up in arms about the Lefts\u2019 political agenda being forced into classrooms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Critical race theory critic Christopher Rufo targeted McAuliffe\u2019s claims about Trump and Youngkin, tweeting, \u201cFirst it was \u2018conservatives don\u2019t understand critical race theory.\u2019 Then it was \u2018that\u2019s not real critical race theory.\u2019 Now it\u2019s \u2018critical race theory doesn\u2019t even exist.\u2019 And it\u2019s only Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.160583941606\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First it was &#8220;conservatives don&#8217;t understand critical race theory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then it was &#8220;that&#8217;s not real critical race theory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s &#8220;critical race theory doesn&#8217;t even exist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s only Monday.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dLI4NVgV53\">https:\/\/t.co\/dLI4NVgV53<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1404536090136961026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/558261-wapost-fact-checker-gives-mcauliffe-four-pinocchios-over-claim-tying-budget\">reported<\/a> on Monday that a Washington Post fact-check gave McAuliffe \u201cfour Pinocchios\u201d for pushing a false claim at least three times that Republicans in Virginia were responsible for the budget deficit he inherited in his first term as Virginia\u2019s governor.\u00a0The Hill wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p data-el=\"text\"><em>\u201cI inherited the largest budget deficit in the history of the state from the Republicans,\u201d McAuliffe tweeted on June 10.\u00a0 \u201cBiggest debt became the biggest surplus,\u201d he said again during an interview on a local radio station, before repeating the claim during an appearance on MSNBC:\u00a0\u201cI inherited the largest deficit from the Republicans.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/14\/fact-checked-three-times-before-mcauliffe-doubles-down-false-budget-claim\/\">Post<\/a> noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9.7094430992736\">\n<p><em>There\u2019s a big problem with this claim: It has been fact-checked as false not once but three times by our colleagues at PolitiFact. In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2015\/nov\/16\/terry-mcauliffe\/mcauliffe-says-he-inherited-large-defict-and-turne\/\">2015<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2019\/jun\/25\/terry-mcauliffe\/mcauliffe-falsely-claims-he-inherited-24-billion-d\/\">2019<\/a>, PolitiFact dinged McAuliffe for saying he inherited a budget deficit from the Republicans. In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2015\/dec\/21\/terry-mcauliffe\/mcauliffes-misspoken-claim-about-facing-record-def\/\">2015<\/a>, PolitiFact also faulted him for saying it was the biggest budget deficit ever \u2014 a statement that his spokesman at the time explained as an inadvertent flub.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry McAuliffe, the former head of the Democratic National Committee (2001-05), co-chair of Bill Clinton\u2019s 1996 re-election campaign, chair of Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2008 presidential campaign, and current Democratic gubernatorial candidate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280323,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-513148692.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Virginia Dem Candidate McAuliffe Says Critical Race Theory Criticism Is \u2018Right-Wing Conspiracy \u2026 Totally Made Up\u2019 By Trump","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-513148692.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Virginia Dem Candidate McAuliffe Says Critical Race Theory Criticism Is \u2018Right-Wing Conspiracy \u2026 Totally Made Up\u2019 By Trump","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564378","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=564378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}