Abigail Spanberger Isn’t Going to Like This Video Montage Going Viral on Social Media
Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic candidate running in Virginia, is suddenly wrestling with a fresh round of bad headlines. After her telling refusal to condemn state attorney general candidate Jay Jones’ calls for violence against Republicans in a private text message exchange, a new problem has surfaced online. A viral montage paints a clear picture of her messaging on national security and election interference.
The montage stitches together past television appearances where Spanberger pushed the Russiagate narrative hard. The clips show her repeating claims about Russian meddling as though the case was settled and obvious to everyone. That messaging is now being used against her by critics who say she exaggerated both the threat and the outcomes.
In one of the clips she declares, “There were systematic and sweeping efforts to influence the U.S. electorate, including hacking, spear-phishing, and other cyberattacks,” as if that settled the matter. In another segment she insisted, “our elections were tampered with by outside forces; a long-time foreign adversary government meddled.”
She also said Russia “took aggressive tactics to influence voters and to steal documents—successfully—from a major political candidate from our party, and they attempted to hack systems that manage our voting infrastructure.”
The Russiagate storyline has been a go-to talking point for Democrats over the last decade. Many Democrats, including then-Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) lied to the American public, claiming Trump’s campaign collaborated with the Kremlin to sway the outcome of the 2016 election. That charge stuck in headlines for years even as official findings never matched the worst claims.
Multiple government probes painted a more nuanced, less dramatic picture. The Senate Intelligence Committee’s initial report explained that it had not found evidence that Russia manipulated vote tallies or voter registration information, and former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson admitted he knew of no evidence proving votes were changed or suppressed through cyberattacks.
What Russia actually ran was a social media influence operation that leaned on fake personas and divisive content. Operatives posed as Americans, ran ads, amplified memes, and tried to stoke anger in targeted communities. That kind of interference is ugly and worth tracking, but it is not the same as flipping ballots.
Put plainly, a lot of the dramatic rhetoric boiled down to digital chaos and meme warfare intended to sow division. It’s worth calling out manipulation when it happens, but facts matter when you’re making claims about stolen elections. Overstating the case became a political weapon rather than a sober accounting.
Democrats used the story to discredit President Trump’s victory, suggesting his win depended on Kremlin help. Yet government reports consistently failed to show any operation changed a single vote or altered outcomes in a decisive way. Smart voters should care about both foreign meddling and about leaders who keep pushing debatable claims as settled truth.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report reached the same basic conclusion: no evidence that Trump or his allies conspired with the Kremlin to alter the election outcome. Despite that, Spanberger and others keep leaning on the narrative, which raises a simple question of judgment and honesty. Voters deserve candidates who call out genuine threats without recycling disproven talking points.
So here we are: Spanberger’s old TV clips keep resurfacing and looking worse by the day when set against official reports. Her past certainty about Russiagate now meets a record that is far more mixed than she suggested. One has to wonder — why should Virginia’s voters trust a candidate that clearly has no problem lying when it suits her party?
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