Anonymous ID: dff718 Oct. 8, 2018, 9:19 a.m. No.3394397   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4429 >>4507

LOOK AT THIS FAKE NEWS BULLSHIT, KEK

 

Republicans fear Democratic 'blue wave' could hit them hard in safe seats where suburban women are angry at Trump and anyone who backs him

Democrats are pouring resources into seats in Virginia, Pennsylvania, southern California and North Carolina

They they believe suburban women are ready to turn on the GOP because of dislike of Trump

Party and outside anti-Trump billionaire Tom Steyer are pouring resources into what they say are vulnerable seats

But Republicans believe the their base's anger at the Kavanaugh confirmation process will drag vulnerable candidates across the line

The last time U.S. congressional elections were held in this central Virginia district, Meg Sneed voted for the Republican incumbent, Representative Dave Brat. Her friend, Cheryll Lesser, did not vote at all.

 

Last week, the two women sat in the second row at a campaign event in a martial arts' studio listening to the Democrat running against Brat, Abigail Spanberger. They nodded in agreement with much of what she had to say.

 

But the real reason they were there was basic: Donald Trump. They don't like the president, and they weren't about to vote for anyone, like Brat, who supports him.

 

'More than the policy, it's the animosity he is fostering within the country,' Sneed said of Trump.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6252075/Republicans-fear-Democratic-blue-wave-spreading-safe-districts.html

Anonymous ID: dff718 Oct. 8, 2018, 9:29 a.m. No.3394507   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4510

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How a CIA veteran-turned-candidate got branded with terrorism claims

 

WASHINGTON – How did a former undercover CIA operative who spent more than eight years fighting terrorism get branded as a teacher at “Terror High?"

 

The strange ordeal for Abigail Spanberger, a Democratic House candidate, began when U.S. Postal Service employees wrongly delivered her confidential personnel file to Republican operatives.

 

Those operatives seized on Spanberger’s stint teaching Bronte and Shakespeare as a way to sink her campaign against GOP Rep. Dave Brat in Virginia.

 

Both Republicans and Democrats hurl dirt in campaigns. The involvement of the Postal Service gives the attack on Spanberger a particularly odd twist that drew outrage from national security veterans and scrutiny from investigators.

 

The willingness of a super PAC aligned with House Speaker Paul Ryan to publicize at least part of Spanberger's improperly released security clearance application raises questions about what information is fair game in today’s political climate.

 

“What is Abigail Spanberger hiding?” a voice asks in a GOP attack ad. “Spanberger doesn’t want us to know that she taught at an Islamic school nicknamed ‘Terror High,’ a terrorist breeding ground.”

 

The ad highlights a valedictorian’s conviction in 2005 for plotting with al-Qaida, then points to a 2003 graduate’s attempt to board a plane with a butcher knife hidden in a carry-on. The message: Spanberger was happy to cash "Terror High" paychecks.

 

Spanberger said her job teaching two semesters at a Saudi Embassy school outside Washington isn’t a secret, and it didn’t stop the CIA from entrusting her with two federal security clearances. It’s wrong, she said, for political opponents to exploit confidential personnel forms they shouldn’t have seen, regardless of who’s at fault for releasing them.

 

“It takes political gamesmanship to a whole new level that I think is beneath who we are, and frankly, I think it sends out a wrong message to public servants everywhere,” Spanberger said

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/09/19/cia-veteran-turned-candidate-targeted-islamic-school-teaching-gig/1262369002/