Terry McAuliffe campaign hires high-profile attorney
An unintended recipient apparently received an email, by mistake, related to the hiring of an attorney. The McAuliffe campaign hired an attorney that specializes in election challenges. Tyler O’Neil, of Fox News, asked the campaign for clarification on this hire. The campaign responded by asking if “the story could be killed”.
From Fox News:
Less than a month before Election Day, McAuliffe’s campaign spent $53,680 on the services of the Elias Law Group, a firm that Marc Elias started earlier this year, Fox News previously reported. Elias had formerly worked as a partner at the law firm Perkins Coie, which the Hillary Clinton campaign hired in 2016 in order to conduct opposition research on Donald Trump — research that included the infamous Christopher Steele dossier. Republicans have accused Elias of lying to hide the Clinton campaign’s role in funding the dossier.
Elias has represented Democrats in efforts to contest elections. Going into the 2020 election, he represented Democrats challenging a Texas law barring “straight-ticket voting.”
House Republicans accused Elias of having a “serious conflict of interest” when he represented Iowa Democratic candidate Rita Hart in her effort to overturn the results of her extremely narrow loss to Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks. GOP members House Administration Committee said that Elias had a conflict because he and Perkins Coie — where he still worked at the time — also represented half of the Democratic committee members who would be deciding the case.
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley wrote that McAuliffe hiring Elias is an “astonishing move.”
“There are a host of election lawyers but McAuliffe selected an attorney accused of lying to the media, advancing rejected conspiracy theories, and currently involved in a major federal investigation that has already led to the indictment of his former partner,” Turley wrote.
“McAuliffe may be preparing to challenge any win by Republican Glenn Youngkin,” he wrote on Twitter.
Fox News reached out to the McAuliffe campaign for comment on Turley’s suggestion. McAuliffe spoksperson Christina Freundlich responded to the email with a message apparently meant for colleagues, not for Fox News.
“Can we try to kill this,” Freundlich wrote.
Fox News has more on the story here.
Category: Politics
Commissar will wander along shortly as an apologist for McAuliffe and double down on the validity of the Steele Dossier.
And he’s also insist that someone did, in fact kill themselves.
😀 😀
AND try to tell us that it’s ALL Donald trump’s fault!
And he’ll do it while claiming that “he’s not defending McAuliffe”. Seems to be his latest approved talking point.
It’s the Bernie Sanders “Castro did some good things” line of reasoning.
https://youtu.be/zJBjjP8WSbc
This NEVER HAPPENED, Comrade.
I think they keep in a basement somewhere, fed on a diet of Kool-Aid, and trot him out whenever there is anti-Prog/corruptocrat story. He is a reliable cheerleader for the Party Line, das Kommeraden.
I can see the demoRats stuffing the ballot box for the Republican running so they can call the election crooked and the demorat running can be seated in office.
Fancy that. Reverse voter fraud. Huh, I like it, except the second part.
I think they should do it.
Let’s see what happens.
I mean, we already KNOW they’re good at it.
Vote counting stopped at 11:48 in the night and then 20,000,000 votes appear for Youngkin in Virginia before Dawn, yeah, YEAH, let’s DO IT!!!
😀 😀
“It matters not who votes…what matters is who counts the votes…”
The Virginian, Patrick Henry, is spinning in his grave. As Deckie so eloquently points out below; “A pack of fools…”
You can rest assured that the Dominion Company will be working overtime til the results desired are tabulated.
Considering McAuliffe was shown to have lied outright about CRT being taught in Virginia, I’d say he is running scared now. Plus, Biden campaigning for him was an absolute disaster. God, the man sounded like a total fool… even McAuliffe looked like he regretted asking him to come out.
Pack of fools who hate and want to destroy this country. There’s no need to say more.
The fix is in. Biden told us they have the best voter fraud in the world.
After the 2020 election results I believe it.
Terry who?
Recent “polls” suggest Younkin is 53% favored over McAwful, who is 46% favored to win.
They were closely “tied” a day and a half ago.
(Not sure what the margin of error is, nor do I care much since polls don’t really mean anything anymore.)
If McAwful takes stock in poll results, he’s probably running scared and setting things in motion to make sure he wins.
There are several Senate seats up for grabs as well.
Well, this is certainly going to help things….
😀 😀 😀 😀
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/mcauliffes-daughter-seen-flipping-the-bird-in-front-of-youngkin-signs
Click through to the NY Post article with the photo and you’ll see this;
Seems like her father has given her a master’s class in rhetoric already.
Call the “Whaaambulance!” instead he should’ve– “It’s not fair– the evil RethugliKKan won!”
D-rats maybe need to stop using Barry MAObama on the stump to fire up the base. It doesn’t work. The dude is just out of touch, tired, lazy, and just plain uninspiring at extemporaneous speaking.
Isn’t this the candidate who is currently running commercials saying that his opponent refuses to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election?
You mean like the D-rats did during Donald Trump’s Presidency?
Looks like McAuliffe is getting campaign strategy tips from Hillary Clinton.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/lincoln-project-roasted-viral-hoax-youngkin