Jen Kiggans’ Effort To Misrepresent Luria’s Position On China While Lifting Key Phrases From Her Op-Ed Placed Her In “An Entirely Different Universe Of Hypocrisy”

Daily Beast: Kiggans Was In “An Entirely Different Universe Of Hypocrisy” By Misrepresenting Luria’s Position On China And Lifting Key Phrases From Luria’s Op-Ed. “It is, by all measurements, one thing to knock your political opponent on a policy you disagree with. It’s another to criticize them even when you agree. But it may be an entirely different universe of hypocrisy to misrepresent your opponent’s position and attack them using their own arguments and words—not as in throwing their words back at them and refuting their arguments, but as in actually taking their words and presenting them as your own. Jen Kiggans, the top Republican candidate in a pivotal House race next year, recently sent out a fundraising email dinging her opponent as part of a Democratic coalition that doesn’t ‘put America first’ and will ‘cower to China.’ That email, however, would likely receive a failing grade in a classroom; it lifts key phrases from her Democratic opponent. Kiggans, in the attempt to pillory her political rival—two-term incumbent Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA)—actually agrees with her, and appears to have stolen language directly from a Wall Street Journal op-ed Luria published four days prior to the email blast.” [Daily Beast, 7/16/21]