{"id":641722,"date":"2021-08-13T17:36:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T21:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=641722"},"modified":"2021-08-13T17:36:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T21:36:28","slug":"virginia-candidate-terry-mcauliffe-showcases-florida-workers-in-campaign-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-candidate-terry-mcauliffe-showcases-florida-workers-in-campaign-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Candidate Terry McAuliffe Showcases Florida Workers in Campaign Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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-candidate-terry-mcauliffe-showcases-florida-workers-in-campaign-ad%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=641722&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 readability=\"36.392681210415\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Virginia&#8217;s Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe released a new ad promoting his goal of &#8220;growing Virginia&#8217;s economy&#8221;\u2014but the workers pictured in the ad are in Florida.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The new ad from McAuliffe, who is running for his second term as governor, includes stock footage sold by Getty Images of a diverse pair of workers in Florida, a <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> investigation found. The &#8220;workers walking through metal fabrication shop stock video&#8221; was shot in Florida in February 2019 and can be <a href=\"http:\/\/istockphoto.com\/video\/workers-walking-through-metal-fabrication-shop-gm1131325043-299484245\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">purchased for $170<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1507035\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pjimage-5.jpg\" alt width=\"2500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pjimage-5.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/pjimage-5-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/pjimage-5-1024x410.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/pjimage-5-768x307.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/pjimage-5-1536x614.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/pjimage-5-2048x819.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/pjimage-5-1400x560.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/pjimage-5-736x294.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The McAuliffe campaign declined to comment on the attempt to pass off Florida workers as Virginians.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is not the first time McAuliffe, who was born and raised in upstate New York, has failed on Virginia geography. In June, McAuliffe <a href=\"https:\/\/twitchy.com\/samj-3930\/2021\/06\/17\/someones-nervous-he-should-be-terry-mcauliffe-deletes-tweet-showing-he-doesnt-know-virginia-from-nebraska-but-we-got-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared an article<\/a> about a school in Norfolk, Neb., using funds from the American Rescue Plan, thinking mistakenly that it was a school in the Virginia city of Norfolk. McAuliffe deleted the tweet.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The native New Yorker, <span class=\"il\">who some say resembles an <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/terry-mcauliffe-old-lesbian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/terry-mcauliffe-old-lesbian\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1628795503532000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE853CKMLPUCiI-5cNehdtpfO5pdg\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\">old lesbian woman<\/a>,<\/span> moved to Virginia several decades ago to kickstart his career in business and politics. After a long fundraising career highlighted by stints as chairman of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton&#8217;s failed 2008 presidential campaign, McAuliffe was elected in 2013 as governor of Virginia. Like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?c4618372\/user-clip-hillary-clinton-feel-ways-tired\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clinton<\/a>, McAuliffe has been <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrentScher\/status\/1422257783773204486\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticized for adopting new dialects<\/a> to cater to constituents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia&#8217;s Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe released a new ad promoting his goal of &#8220;growing Virginia&#8217;s economy&#8221;\u2014but the workers pictured in the ad are in Florida. 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