The campaign for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe of Virginia has emailed its supporters likening Republican opponent Ken Cuccinelli to failed 2012 Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin.
Calling Cuccinelli “Virginia’s Todd Akin,” the email admits that the Republican attorney general has never expressed views like that of Akin, who claimed pregnancy as a result of rape did not happen because women’s bodies could “shut that whole thing down.” But that didn’t stop Emily Aden, McAuliffe’s research director, from making the comparison in a fundraising appeal. Here’s an excerpt:
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