{"id":939222,"date":"2021-10-29T20:44:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T00:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=939222"},"modified":"2021-10-29T20:44:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T00:44:30","slug":"lincoln-project-dem-operative-claim-credit-for-neo-nazi-cosplay-hoax-as-mcauliffe-campaign-limps-toward-defeat-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lincoln-project-dem-operative-claim-credit-for-neo-nazi-cosplay-hoax-as-mcauliffe-campaign-limps-toward-defeat-in-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Project, Dem Operative Claim Credit for Neo-Nazi Cosplay Hoax as McAuliffe Campaign Limps Toward Defeat in Virginia"},"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%2Flincoln-project-dem-operative-claim-credit-for-neo-nazi-cosplay-hoax-as-mcauliffe-campaign-limps-toward-defeat-in-virginia%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=939222&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>In the manner of a terrorist organization accepting responsibility for an atrocious attack on civilians, the Lincoln Project and a Democratic operative claimed credit for a bizarre performance of neo-Nazi cosplay on Friday as the Virginia gubernatorial race enters its final stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation swirled almost immediately after an NBC News reporter on Friday posted a photo of five dispirited young people, dressed in white shirts and khakis, holding tiki torches in front of Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin&#8217;s campaign bus in Charlottesville, Va. One of the &#8220;white supremacists&#8221; was an African-American.<\/p>\n<p>Their costumes were intended to invoke the &#8220;Unite the Right&#8221; rally in 2018, when white supremacist groups gathered to protest the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue.&nbsp;Despite the pouring rain, the cosplayers did not break character even as curious bystanders snapped photos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These men approached Glenn Younkin&#8217;s bus as it pulled up saying what sounded like, \u2018We\u2019re all in for Glenn,'&#8221; NBC 29 reporter Elizabeth Holmes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/holmes_reports\/status\/1454094826824212485\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter, the popular social networking website. The reporter&#8217;s post was subsequently promoted by a campaign staffer for Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe. Media experts instantly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterHamby\/status\/1454175622494711809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recognized<\/a> the situation as &#8220;obviously a [Democratic] stunt,&#8221; but neither the McAuliffe campaign nor the Virginia Democratic Party would admit to paying hapless youngsters to get drenched in the name of social justice.<\/p>\n<p>The Lincoln Project, a Democratic Super PAC whose senior members are widely suspected of enabling the sexually predatory behavior of &nbsp;disgraced co-founder John Weaver, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McCormackJohn\/status\/1454196150177783811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> credit for the amateur stunt after a <em>Vice News<\/em> reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/3abzaj\/lincoln-project-posed-as-charlottesville-white-supremacists-at-youngkin-gop-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">identified<\/a> one of the Democratic operatives holding an unlit tiki torch in the rain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today\u2019s demonstration was our way of reminding Virginians what happened in Charlottesville four years ago, the Republican Party\u2019s embrace of those values, and Glenn Youngkin\u2019s failure to condemn it,&#8221; the Lincoln Project wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolnproject.us\/statement-from-the-lincoln-project-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>. Democratic operative Lauren Windsor also posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lawindsor\/status\/1454211815806619651\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> alleging she had worked with the Lincoln Project to &#8220;coordinate today&#8217;s Youngkin action in Charlottesville.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Professional media observers were not entirely convinced by the Lincoln Project&#8217;s admission of guilt. &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if the Lincoln Project simply agreed to take responsibility after the fact as a favor to the McAuliffe campaign,&#8221; wrote Brian Riedl, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The Lincoln Project, which raised almost $100 million in the 2020 election cycle, has faced criticism after one of its founding members described his desire to transform the Super PAC into a vehicle for &#8220;generational wealth,&#8221; while others have used to the windfall to pay off back taxes, mortgages, and other debts.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and speaking of skinheads, here&#8217;s a photo of the Lincoln Project&#8217;s senior leadership:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1534020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-7.26.09-PM.png\" alt width=\"1786\" height=\"968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-7.26.09-PM.png 1786w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-7.26.09-PM-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-7.26.09-PM-1024x555.png 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-7.26.09-PM-768x416.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-7.26.09-PM-1536x833.png 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-7.26.09-PM-1400x759.png 1400w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-7.26.09-PM-736x399.png 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1786px) 100vw, 1786px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the manner of a terrorist organization accepting responsibility for an atrocious attack on civilians, the Lincoln Project and a Democratic operative claimed credit for a bizarre performance of neo-Nazi &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"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-939222","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\/939222","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\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939222\/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=939222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}