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Home Front: Politix
North Carolina Senate race in 'chaos' after Cunningham sexting scandal, Tillis coronavirus diagnosis
2020-10-06
[FOXNEWS] The critical and expensive Senate race in North Carolina, central to determining which party controls the upper chamber, was thrown into uncertainty this weekend.

Within the span of just a few hours on Friday, Republican incumbent Thom Tillis announced that he had tested positive for the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
, while his Democratic challenger, Cal Cunningham, acknowledged and apologized for exchanging sexually suggestive text messages with a woman who is not his wife.

Tillis has "mild symptoms," a spokesperson said Saturday, and the diagnosis forced the first-term senator to cancel in-person events with just one month until the election. He is one of several Republican officials to contract the virus in recent days, including President Trump and Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Mike Lee, R-Utah.

"It’s chaos — it’s really what I see it is," David McLennan, a political science professor at Meredith College in Raleigh, said Saturday.

Cunningham, who has led in polls throughout the summer and raked in a record-setting $28.3 million in donations over the past three months, apologized Friday for the romantic text messages that he sent. A spokeswoman for Cunningham’s campaign, Rachel Petri, confirmed on Saturday the authenticity of the text messages, which were first reported by the website NationalFile.com.

"I have hurt my family, disappointed my friends, and am deeply sorry. The first step in repairing those relationships is taking complete responsibility, which I do," Cunningham, who is married with two teenage children, said in a statement late Friday.

Screenshots of the messages show Cunningham told public relations strategist Arlene Guzman Todd, "Would make my day to roll over and kiss you about now," to which she replies, "You’re so sweet. I would enjoy that."

Another shows Guzman Todd tell Cunningham, "the only thing I want on my to do list is you," to which Cunningham replies, "Sounds so hot and so fun!"

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Posted by:Fred

#10  So not only "sexting" with one, but an actually bumping nasties at HIS house while the Mrs was gone. This JULY! And the woman threatened to release nudes of the guy.

Cunningham was running on an "Im Andy Griiffith" and just one of the folks wholesome platform. Its dead in the water, but wow are the press really scrambline to excuse him or push onward.

Our press is corrupt. To hell with gutting the government, lets gut the big news companies.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057   2020-10-06 22:53  

#9  That’s grilling, it ain’t bar-b-que
Posted by: Beavis   2020-10-06 21:25  

#8  I am probably wrong about there not being actual sexual activity.

Statements by 'other woman Number 1' implies they did it in Cunningham's own home while his family was away.
Posted by: Lord Garth   2020-10-06 20:36  

#7  ^ Actually, his sex life is none of my business, unless he's screwing around with my wife. But faking BBQ, that's poltroon territory...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-10-06 18:44  

#6  this is the same guy who put up a 'love BBQ' tweet while

- using a gas grill that seemed to be off
- displaying buns heated in a electric oven
- apparently beginning to BBQ hot dogs and hamburgers

so really, which is worse, sexting (apparently without sex) or pretending to like BBQ without knowing what it is
Posted by: lord garth   2020-10-06 18:03  

#5  #3 ...but the media still likes red meat wherever it comes
You can guarantee that Northern newsies will love to print anything insulting about a White Male Southerner.
Posted by: magpie   2020-10-06 12:36  

#4  Cal, Cal, [not so]Cunning Ham,
Has a new mistress, is a new man

Yo, y'all taught me language, 'n' mah profit on't is ah knows how to curse
Posted by: George Thomorong5967   2020-10-06 10:08  

#3  Well, the dems would like to make sex scandals a problem for Republicans only, but the media still likes red meat wherever it comes from some times. If Cunningham had taken up with a trans individual, the press probably would have blacked it out or called anyone bringing attention to it "a hater..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-10-06 09:11  

#2  Cal Cunningham backs out of town hall as new cheating allegation surfaces
All eyes are on North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham after he reportedly pulled out of a town hall event on Monday following the publication of steamy text messages between the candidate and a woman who is not his wife.

Cunningham, a Democrat challenging incumbent Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., "backed out" of a campaign event scheduled for Monday and organizers hope to reschedule, WUNC reported.

The news of Cunningham backing out of the town hall comes hours after another affair allegation against Cunningham surfaced Monday, this time from a woman claiming her friend has been having an affair with Cunningham since 2012.

Cunningham, who is married, apologized on Friday after the website NationalFile.com published steamy text messages between the candidate and a public relations strategist named Arlene Guzman Todd. The allegation that surfaced Monday purports to involve a second woman.
Posted by: Frank G   2020-10-06 07:49  

#1  No "chaos", just thr press trying to cover up Cunningham with Tillis having COVID.

COVID is NOT a death sentence, stop the press fearmongering.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057   2020-10-06 04:17  

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