Matthew Foldi looks at the media's effort to blame a 'Republican group' for the Lincoln Project's tiki-torch stunt

As Twitchy reported Friday, a small group of “Glenn Youngkin supporters” showed up at a campaign event in Charlottesville (in sunglasses, in the rain) to pose with tiki-torches while standing in line in front of Youngkin’s campaign bus. It was obviously fake, and the Lincoln Project has taken “credit” for the stunt.

In my capacity as a communications consultant, I worked w @ProjectLincoln to coordinate today's Youngkin action in Charlottesville. I join them in the fight to defend our democracy from rightwing extremists and call for Glenn Youngkin to denounce Trump’s ‘very fine people.

— Lauren Windsor (@lawindsor) October 29, 2021

As Twitchy reported earlier, people are taking issue with Reuters World’s tweet saying the stunt was the effort of a group of anti-Trump Republicans, aka the Lincoln Project. The Washington Free Beacon’s Matthew Foldi has a great thread exposing the effort to pin the stunt on a “Republican” group.

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Lauren Windsor is executive director of American Family Voices — hardly a Republican organization.

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What a shock! They were an anti-Trump group, but after Biden won, they still had to keep the money coming in somehow, so they’ve been campaigning for Democrats ever since. But yeah, they’re a “Republican” group.

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REPORT: The Lincoln Project has spent $279,000 boosting Terry McAuliffe's campaign this cycle https://t.co/7v4rcCu30e

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 29, 2021