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Anti-Trump Group Hires Fake White Supremacists to Tarnish GOP Candidate in VA

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There are no shortage of ways in which political activists can play dirty, with new and inventive schemes and scams appearing all of the time.

American politics have become an ever-filthier game in recent years as well, with the left and the right both stooping fairly low over the course of the last several months.

Now, with the Virginia gubernatorial race too close to call, one group of anti-Trump Republicans are taking things too far with a stunt aimed at insinuating that the GOP candidate in that contest is racist.

Lincoln Project co-founder Stuart Stevens doubled down Friday on the group’s decision to have actors pose as White supremacists with tiki torches at a Glenn Youngkin gubernatorial rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last week.

Stevens said the stunt was part of helping Democrats learn “how to win, how to play hardball” after CNN “Prime Time” host Chris Cuomo asked if staging the ruse was “being what you say you guys oppose.”

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Stevens said the real issue wasn’t with his group’s stunt but rather that Youngkin, a Republican running for governor in Virginia, hadn’t denounced former President Trump saying there were “very fine” people on both sides of the White supremacist “Unite the Right” rally and counterprotesters in Charlottesville in 2017. “Unite the Right” participants infamously carried tiki torches while marching, with some chanting “Jews will not replace us.”

Trump supporters have repeatedly questioned the “very fine people” narrative, insisting that the context of Trump’s statement being largely ignored in the media’s retelling.

The gag was so vile, in fact, that the Democratic candidate in the race condemned the stunt outright despite the potential political benefit that it may bring him.

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As a lifelong advocate for the dream promised us in the Constitution, Andrew West has spent his years authoring lush prose editorial dirges regarding America's fall from grace and her path back to prosperity. When West isn't railing against the offensive whims of the mainstream media or the ideological cruelty that is so rampant in the US, he spends his time seeking adventurous new food and fermented beverages, with the occasional round of golf peppered in.




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