{"id":960482,"date":"2021-11-03T02:28:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T06:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=960482"},"modified":"2021-11-03T02:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T06:28:49","slug":"and-we-brought-tiki-torches-democrats-fume-that-lincoln-project-stunt-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/and-we-brought-tiki-torches-democrats-fume-that-lincoln-project-stunt-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;And We Brought Tiki Torches&#039;: Democrats Fume that Lincoln Project Stunt Failed"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fand-we-brought-tiki-torches-democrats-fume-that-lincoln-project-stunt-failed%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=960482&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\/11\/glenn-youngkin-election-night-governor-elect-nov-2-21-getty-images-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Democrats complained on Tuesday that the Lincoln Project\u2019s&nbsp;tiki torch stunt failed to defeat Governor-elect&nbsp;Glenn Youngkin in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we brought Tiki torches,\u201d Bloomberg reporter Eli Lake said as he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProjectLincoln\/status\/1442568487788896260?s=20\">retweeted<\/a>&nbsp;the Lincoln Project post, \u201cWe\u2019re coming for you, @GlennYoungkin.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.6086956521739\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And we brought Tiki torches <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Guj0dZCDkg\">https:\/\/t.co\/Guj0dZCDkg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eli Lake (@EliLake) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EliLake\/status\/1455724132985974791?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Marisa Kabas, who identifies as a \u201cshe\/her,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarisaKabas\/status\/1455728536380223493?s=20\">tweeted<\/a>&nbsp;disbelief that the stunt failed to win voters for Terry McAuliffe\u2019s campaign:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.7070707070707\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">can\u2019t believe the tiki torch stunt didn\u2019t work<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marisa Kabas (@MarisaKabas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarisaKabas\/status\/1455728536380223493?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>A former <em>New York Times<\/em> reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NellieBowles\/status\/1455696533903400961\">said<\/a> more tiki torches could have won the day for McAuliffe:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.0857142857143\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The crucial mistake was not enough tiki torch. Need to 10x the number of khakis next time<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nellie Bowles (@NellieBowles) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NellieBowles\/status\/1455696533903400961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Lincoln Project\u2019s threatening tweet from Wednesday came two days before they pulled a hoax in Virginia. On Friday, five individuals,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/29\/democrat-operative-admits-involvement-failed-virginia-tiki-torch-false-flag-plot\/\">comprising<\/a>&nbsp;at least one Democrat operative allegedly from McAuliffe\u2019s campaign, held tiki torches in front of then-candidate Glenn Youngkin\u2019s campaign bus to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/29\/lincoln-project-takes-responsibility-for-tiki-torch-hoax-in-virginia\/\">remind<\/a> \u201cVirginians what happened in Charlottesville four years ago,\u201d according to the Lincoln Project.<\/p>\n<p>The stunt was meant to pull former President Donald Trump into the Virginia election.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.6881355932203\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">These men approached <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlennYoungkin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GlennYoungkin<\/a>\u2019s bus as it pulled up saying what sounded like, \u201cWe\u2019re all in for Glenn.\u201d Here they are standing in front of the bus as his campaign event at Guadalajara started.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBC29?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NBC29<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l681ejyBjc\">pic.twitter.com\/l681ejyBjc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elizabeth Holmes (@holmes_reports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/holmes_reports\/status\/1454094826824212485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Within Lincoln Project\u2019s statement, they claimed Trump called neo-Nazis in Charlottesville \u201cvery fine people.\u201d There are \u201cvery fine people on both sides,\u201d they claimed Trump stated, attempting to connect Trump to&nbsp;Youngkin.<\/p>\n<p>But the Lincoln project took former President Trump\u2019s comments out of context. Trump\u2019s transcript plainly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/29\/lincoln-project-takes-responsibility-for-tiki-torch-hoax-in-virginia\/\">reads<\/a>, \u201cYou had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>After the Lincoln Project admitted they had attempted the failed stunt, the establishment media news outlet&nbsp;<em>Newsweek<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/terry-mcauliffe-glenn-youngkin-lincoln-project-virginia-governor-charlottesville-1644180\">acknowledged<\/a> the stunt \u201cprompted concerns\u201d it would hurt McAuliffe\u2019s election chances.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps <em>Newsweek<\/em> was correct. Upon McAuliffe\u2019s sound defeat Tuesday night, the Lincoln Project was mocked on Twitter for the hoax:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.7643312101911\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Has anyone checked on the Lincoln Project and their tiki torch brigade tonight? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VEjcNnCnLt\">https:\/\/t.co\/VEjcNnCnLt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Spencer Brown (@itsSpencerBrown) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itsSpencerBrown\/status\/1455700345066299395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.5433070866142\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Did voters not see the tiki torch guys? What gives? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/US8MPtlEib\">https:\/\/t.co\/US8MPtlEib<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redsteeze\/status\/1455699617811554305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.979797979798\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The only newsletter that counts is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/daveweigel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@daveweigel<\/a>\u2019s on election day. Now up: The Trailer\u2019s hour-by-hour guide of what to watch, the final polls and ads in key races, and what that Charlottesville tiki torch stunt was all about. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CFXlBELr18\">https:\/\/t.co\/CFXlBELr18<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matea Gold (@mateagold) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mateagold\/status\/1455686490378416133?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"13.267973856209\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Makes this all sweeter that McAuliffe went straight to the gutter in the last weeks of the campaign, using slanders of \u201cracism!\u201d and the most underhanded bullshit lib tactics imaginable, including tiki torch false flag idiots<\/p>\n<p>And Youngkin still dunked him<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuckSexton\/status\/1455716030798614528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.8484848484848\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shut. Up. And. Go. Away. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l99sIQE0Eb\">https:\/\/t.co\/l99sIQE0Eb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CheriJacobus\/status\/1455734963328987137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on Twitter&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><em>@WendellHuseb\u00f8.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats complained on Tuesday that the Lincoln Project\u2019s\u00a0tiki torch stunt failed to defeat Governor-elect\u00a0Glenn Youngkin in Virginia. \u201cAnd we brought Tiki torches,\u201d Bloomberg reporter Eli Lake said as he\u00a0retweeted\u00a0the Lincoln &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"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-960482","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\/960482","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960482\/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=960482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}