In news that no one in this country with more than a single brain cell should be surprised about, likely voters in the state of Virginia have weighed in on whether or not a Democrat who raised funds by making sex videos and streaming them online should drop from the race and end her political career, and the answer was a resounding “yes.”
Heck, even other Democrats and women think what Virginia House of Delegates candidate Susanna Gibson did by streaming sexually explicit content online thought what she did was distasteful. According to the Daily Wire, a total of 56 percent of the individuals who participated in the survey thought Gibson needs to drop out of the race, with only 30 percent saying she should stay in it to win it. The poll in question was conducted by Founders Insight and co/efficient.
A total of 44 percent of Democrats stated Gibson needs to call it quits and find another line of work, while 39 percent said she should tell the haters to take a long walk off a short pier and keep the campaign going.
“The poll shows that core constituencies Virginia Democrats count on to turn out in elections — women, black, and young voters — signaled they may go in the opposite direction when it comes to Gibson. Women were significantly more likely than men to think she should drop out, with 60% of women saying she should quit,” the Daily Wire reported. “Another group that Democrats bank firmly on, black voters, felt strongly that she must leave the race, with 62% saying she should drop out and only 18% saying she should stay in. And young people were not as open to the idea of a porn star as a candidate as Democrats might have hoped: 18 to 34-year-olds thought she should drop out by a 50%-40% margin, an even more negative view of the scandal than 35 to 44-year-olds.”
“Early voting begins Friday in Virginia’s pivotal 2023 elections, including the one in a swing district outside of Richmond that pits Democrat Susanna Gibson against Republican David Owen,” the report added.
The poll, which surveyed a total of 894 people between the dates of Sept. 14 and Sept. 18, asked participants, “Recently, the Washington Post covered a story about a female candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates of live-streamed having sex with her husband while asking for money to perform other sex acts. Do you believe this disqualifies the candidate from running for office?”
One of the few areas in the state that actually, kind of, sort of, wanted Gibson to stick around was Richmond. This, of course, includes her very own Henrico district, which reported the lowest total of voters that wanted her to drop out at 45 percent versus 38 percent of folks who want her to continue.
“She has refused to address the scandal or answer questions from media, including the Times-Dispatch. Yet on Tuesday, the Times-Dispatch allowed Gibson to run an op-ed on an unrelated issue, essentially a press release that allowed her to avoid hard questions,” the Daily Wire said.
However, the move by the Times-Dispatch didn’t have the effect they were hoping for, causing readers in the community to raise questions about the journalistic integrity of the publisher. Not long afterwards, the piece was unpublished. But then, it seems the paper reversed course a second time and republished it. What a mess.
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