ICYMI: Washington Post Endorses Abigail Spanberger, Slams Nick Freitas For His Extreme Record

ICYMI: Washington Post Endorses Abigail Spanberger, Slams Nick Freitas For His Extreme Record

RICHMOND, VA — With just over one week until Election Day, the Washington Post has endorsed Abigail Spanberger for re-election, praising her bipartisan approach and ability to get things done by working with both sides in Congress. The Post also slammed Nick Freitas’s hyper-partisan record of opposition to the ACA and his inability to criticize Donald Trump. “Ms. Spanberger has been an independent voice for Virginia’s 7th District. Mr. Freitas would be the opposite. If she loses, so will the district’s constituents,” they write.

Highlights:

• “Ms. Spanberger deserves to be reelected. Not only is she is a standard-bearer of moderation at a time it is badly needed; she is also a thoughtful, knowledgeable legislator who has taken the trouble to legislate.”
• “She has avoided partisan fights with Mr. Trump; co-sponsored bipartisan legislation that he signed to combat human trafficking and, in another instance, protect cutting-edge telecommunications from foreign hacking.”
• “Mr. Freitas, who has sported a MAGA hat, seems loath to criticize Mr. Trump for anything. Even on the handling of the pandemic, in which the United States’ per capita death toll has surpassed that of virtually every other major Western democracy, he gives the Trump administration high marks. And like Mr. Trump, Mr. Freitas favors dismantling Obamacare — with no realistic plan to replace it or protect patients with preexisting conditions.” 
• “He also opposed Medicaid expansion, which extended health coverage to hundreds of thousands of poor Virginians, partly on the grounds that it would increase the federal debt. Yet he hails Mr. Trump’s massive 2017 tax cut as ‘one of the greatest things’ the president ever did, even though it will add nearly $2 trillion to federal deficits over a decade.”