McAuliffe, Fake Extremist

Washington DC

Description

A local NBC reporter shared a picture on Friday morning of a group of people dressed to resemble protesters from the violent 2018 Charlottesville riot. The point, it seems, was to tie Youngkin’s campaign to right-wing extremism or white supremacy: Not one of these actors is affiliated with Youngkin’s campaign. They’re not even Youngkin supporters. They’re Democrats and employees of the Virginia Democratic Party. One of the men in the group has been identified as Camden Layton, the finance director for Virginia Young Democrats: The girl in the group has been identified as Colleen Wachenfeld, another Virginia Democrats employee whose background on Twitter was a picture of McAuliffe at a campaign event: This stunt only reinforces that McAuliffe is the worst kind of politician. He deserves to lose.