Breaking News: Cal Cunningham admits sexting someone who is not his wife

From Cal Cunningham:

"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. I ask that my family’s privacy be respected in this personal matter."

#ncsen #ncpol

Dick pics?

FUCK

Democrats desperately need this seat

what a moron. You know the repubs will gleefully suddenly act as though they give a fuck about ethics and morality now. This race is close but it seemed like Cunningham was going to win. This could fuck up the Democrats' chances of taking back the Senate

DAMN It

I am still voting for him. At least he doesn't kiss a rapist's ass like Tillis does with Trump.

He is stupid. Republicans are trying to entrap Democrats

He should definitely refuse to drop out. Republicans always do.

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That asshole. I wanted him to run for president one day. He shouldn't drop out, though. I think he still might pull this off.

He has just enough time to spin it

He isn't leaving according to WRAL.

Cunningham's relationship with his wife is none of my business and if she's upset, I respect that

But let me say these are the tamest sexts I've ever read in my life. I was expecting some really steamy stuff but this is like "oh my gosh, would i love to kiss you darling"

LMAO

Yeah, if he doesn't have Covid, it's a non-issue at the moment.

Underwhelming texts

I've never understood why Americans are so obssessed with the marriages of politicians.

True, r13, this should be moved to the "I want to be underwhelmed" thread.

We expect this from Rethugs, but Democrats? Really?

You all are supposed to have better communication with your partners, and not do this kind of stupid $hit.

Moron. Not only is he kicking himself, he is kicking us as well.

Hopefully this doesn't make a difference in the race We need him to win that seat.

R16, have you been living under a fucking rock?

The Covid Cavalcade is the only show in town. People don’t have time for this guy’s underwhelming extracurriculars.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And the Democratic response should be who cares? The Republican party is led by a rapist who grabs women by the pussy, fucked a porn star while his wife was nursing their newborn and has five kids by three different women. Tell any Republican who has a problem with this guy to go fuck themselves.

Who the fuck cares??? Unless the woman on the receiving end was being harassed, who in the hell cares? We don't have purity tests on the left. We don't look to legislate "family values." Typing to a woman who isn't your wife is not exactly paying off a porn star you fucked when your wife just had a kid

Yeah but this is North Carolina r23, not Massachusetts where no one cares about this shit. They care in NC, its a southern state.

Effing moron. We really need this seat. Why can't these candidates put a lid on their cheating until the day after the election? Then can go hog wild then for all anyone cares.

R24, because a guy's dick will always overrule his brain.

R14, the Puritan Protestantism that gave Britain a civil war and a headless king has lived on in the USA in the guise of an increasingly hypocritical, falsely moralizing, "perfectionist" and reactionary mindset. Blended with an Americanized distortion of "Victorian" family values, the trait has left everything to do with sex chronically repressed, fetishized and dehumanized under a false ideal of procreative "sanctioned love."

It is the motive of the clucking busybody, half-wet in her panties while decrying "indecent" behavior.

Thanks for the Socio-history lesson r26, it's all true but so what. We're in the middle of the fight of our lives to get rid of the most corrupt leadership in recent human history. This guy and his Senate race was key to it, and he had to go and fuck up like this. Wait until after the election to indulge in carefree laissez-faire.

As a North Carolinian, I don’t think this moves the needle. He is polling highly, not on name recognition or agenda, but because he’s not Tillis. The electorate in NC are fed up with both of their Senators and the popularity Cunningham has in the polls isn’t about who he is but rather who is not.

A politician being a pig. How shocking.

He actually sounds really sweet and caring in the text. Maybe he and his wife have an arrangement. None of our business.

Anyway, it looks like the affair was years ago so all is forgiven.

At least he isn’t a possible super spreader like “Toll road Tommy” Tillis

[quote] Yeah but this is North Carolina [R23], not Massachusetts where no one cares about this shit. They care in NC, its a southern state.

The pussy-grabbing porn star fucker was running nationwide, not just in MA, and guess which region of the country loved him the most?

[quote] Why can't these candidates put a lid on their cheating until the day after the election? Then can go hog wild then for all anyone cares?

This I agree with, but I don’t think some milquetoast “sexts” to a fellow adult will necessarily kill his candidacy, especially since his opponent has covid.

i dont think this is going to have a huge impact. It might have a small impact. Tillis just tested positive for coronavirus today, so he has his own bad behavior to account for (not wearing a fucking mask while celebrating the stolen supreme court seat)

Why do you think this waS years ago?

He’s lucky to have this drop on a Friday night during one of the biggest news days and weeks in modern American history.

They wife looks a bit caneface-y. Arrangement or into MFF fun?

Asking for a nearby couple in the higher education sector.

You are wrong for that. Watch yourself

He needs his wife to come out in support of him

[quote]We don't have purity tests on the left.

Excuse me?

Cal has had a rough week. He was skewered for an ad in which he barbecued in a manner atypical and offensive to North Carolina.

His opponent has covid. And with all the drama in general going on in politics, Cunningham should have enough time to spin it.

I hope so. I gave him money earlier this week

Let me know when he grabs a pussy or secretly raises an underage Cuban boy.

I don't think this will impact his race that much. I'm just upset because he would have made a great Democratic candidate for president one day. This would stain his candidacy. I could be overreacting given what we have today, though.

Roy Cooper is a much better presidential candidate

He is stupid dumbass!

R19

I think I'm stuck in the mindset that Dems=good and Rethugs=pieces of $hit because, well, Rethugs are pieces of $hit.

It is true that pre-2016 I mistrusted both sides.

Touche, R39, but as you know, most of the anger over Franken is directed at people like Gilibrand for her role in bringing him down. Dem voters are angry with her, not Franken. That's why her attempt to run for president lasted about five minutes.

To be fair to Gilibrand, at the time, I dithyrambs hear many Democrats defending Franken

R49, the anger was more in the fact that they were never that vigilant when it came to what Trump had done. If Dems had hammered Trump that hard at every turn, he may never have even gotten the nomination.

I didn’t hear *

[quote] Republicans are trying to entrap Democrats

Guzman Todd said on her now-deleted LinkedIn page that she is the media relations director for a representative body of cannabis distributors in California. She was formerly an adjunct professor at California State University, where she taught in the communications department. Guzman Todd was quoted in an article on Parent.com regarding the use of cameras in childcare. She said, “I am a big fan of the cameras, they helped provide a feeling of security and allowed me to build trust by watching the caretaker’s interactions with my children.”

At the time of writing, little information is publicly visible from Guzman Todd’s Facebook page. A quote under her profile photo reads, “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.”

Guzman Todd is a graduate of the University of Southern California and Occidental College. She has a master’s degree in political management from The George Washington University and a master of arts in clinical psychology, emphasis in marriage and family therapy from Pepperdine University.

An online profile for Guzman Todd refers to her as a “versatile, performance-driven strategic communications and public affairs leader.”

Online records show Guzman Todd has donated $900 to Cunningham’s campaign in four separate donations in April and September.

In May 2020, Guzman Todd started a petition on Change.org to garner support for her husband’s campaign to continue his active service in the U.S. Army so that he could qualify for a full pension. She wrote that during his time in the service, Jeremy Todd broke his spine on an airborne operation.

At the time of writing, the petition had more than 10,000 signatures. In an update to the page, Guzman Todd said she was reaching out to politicians on her husband’s behalf but was receiving no replies. Cunningham is an active lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. Cunningham has been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan and was awarded a bronze star medal.

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A marijuana industry lobbyist from USC and GWU is hardly likely to be a republican operative.

Did he grab her pussy with both hands? Next!

r44 No, be happy it came out. I think he will win anyway. But it is disqualifying to run for president getting caught like this because it shows unbelievable lack of self control. It's one thing to be fucking around on a spouse. He was indiscreet, put it in writing like a fucking moron, and was doing it in the weeks leading up to an election that has a very good chance of determining the balance of power in the U.S. senate. I could even respect if he was banging the lady already but he wasn't. He was just in the early courtship stages of cheating. In writing. Fucking idiot.

The candidate is really suave.

It's not disqualifying, but it does show poor judgment.

r54 put it better than I could. It's not the cheating as much as its the handling of it.

Our new North Carolina poll finds Cal Cunningham leading Thom Tillis 48-42, actually an improvement from our last public poll in July which had the race at 48-44:

i'd wait a week to see

weekend polls might not be enough time for the whole state to learn of it

hopefully Cunningham wins this seat I don't care how thinly the margin is

True bro

omg! a man being a man!

How has NC media covered it? Is it a big story now?

No...

Shouldn't be an issue. Next door in South Carolina their Republican governor left the country to commit adultery and the good morally upright citizens of that state sent him to Congress.

Them Tar Heels just don't care.

𝗔𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗢𝗻𝗲

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.

The second allegation hinges on a claim from Erin Brinkman, who appears to be a Los Angeles-based lawyer who served on Cunningham's state Senate steering committee from 2009 to 2010, according to the LinkedIn profile of a woman with the same name.

“He’s been having an affair with a good friend of mine since 2012. Not the woman mentioned in the story. Needless to say, my friend was devastated. But my feeling is, if they’ll cheat WITH you, they’ll cheat ON you!" reads a screengrab of a Facebook comment written by Erin Brinkman that was published by NationalFile.com on Monday.

He is toast

for fuck's sake

WHYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy *cries in Nancy Kerrigan*

Democratic voters like lusty, zesty men, not weak milquetoasts who catch the Covid even while wearing a mask and sitting thirty feet away from Trump.

R66, Dubious source and allegation. A friend of the woman? Naw son

As the saying goes, the cover-up is often worse than the crime, so his owning up to it should go a long way toward fixing the issue.

if they were consensual affairs why are these women coming forward? Sexual harassment and sexual assault I understand. If those women willingly got with him, who cares? Are they repub women?

The first woman got a little bit of coverage but the second got barely a passing mention on the local news in Raleigh. This will have no effect, except in terms of his family life.

MI-SEN Peters 50% (+7) James 43%

NC-SEN Cunningham 47% (+5) Tillis 42%

Ipsos / LV / 9/29-10/6

NEW @EastCarolina (B/C) North Carolina poll October 2-4:

Biden 50.4%/Trump 47.2% (+3.2)

Cunningham 46.4%/Tillis 46.7% (-0.3)

Cooper 54.5%/Forest 40.5% (+14)

MOE +/- 3.2%

Apparently the original mistress is talking, claims she had sex with him at his house, he was weird, and she is going to release his nude pics.

Fuck this asshole. It was going perfectly for him and he ruined it. Straight men should be BANNED from running for office.

This complicates taking control of the senate if the prudes in NC decide this is disqualifying. Thom Tillis is also an odious dirtbag so it might not turn the tide completely.

WRAL Has the story

And he chose an unhinged woman to have an affair with. He’s stupid

Has Cunningham even appeared in Public since the story broke? What is his public response going to be? He needs to face the music

fuck

this seat is likely a loss now. Cunningham should be attacking Tillis on his coronavirus and SCOTUS stances

What a maroon!

AP interviews mistress

Where is he? Step up and face the public you failed

He already owned up to the scandal when it first broke!

Well, he does have bdf.

Who gaf, he should stay in the race. He's a cheater, not a fucking nazi.

But it’s been days since it broke. He’s been in hiding, which is cowardly

[quote] Fuck this asshole. It was going perfectly for him and he ruined it. Straight men should be BANNED from running for office.

You are 𝒂𝒃𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 correct sir !

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There is a second claim of infidelity? *cries*

Please NC. Resist the urge and vote democratic !!!

Brutal front pages across the state following revelations from AP & WRAL yesterday that Cunningham’s sexting scandal w/ the wife of a veteran “went beyond texts”

Charlotte Observer, Lexington Dispatch (Cunningham’s hometown paper), Greensboro News & Record, Winston-Salem Journal

#BREAKING @USArmyReserve confirmed to WRAL that it has opened an investigation into #CalCunningham, #NorthCarolina’s Democratic candidate for US #Senate.

@CalforNC admitted to sending sexual text messages to a woman who is not his wife last week.

Cal is finally talking to media

Is he blaming Russian hackers?

wait why is there an investigation over an affair?

Adultery is a crime in the military

He could be prosecuted, imprisoned, then kicked out of the Army Reserves for this

for fuck's sake.

what a moron

i guess this race is over. Damnit

hopefully the momentum against Trump is big that in other states we still pick up seats

Yeah we lost this seat now. Send your prayers and money to Greenfield in Iowa to help us now.

Thom Tillis’ Ex-Wife Cites “Cruel and Inhuman Treatment” in Divorce Documents #ncpol #ncsen via @AmericanLedger

IA, ME, AZ, GA look pretty good. Possibly the other GA, SC, MT, even MS and TX where some polls have been neck & neck. Longer shots are KY, KS, and AK. Jones will probably lose in AL but Peters will probably win in MI.

Cunningham is still polling ahead. While this certainly could cost us the seat, Biden and Cooper are polling ahead in NC and might be able to drag Cunningham to victory. I wouldn't count out Cunningham yet.

Stupidest candidate of the year

What, Tom Tillis abused his wife?

That seems much worse than having an open relationship like Cal.

R101

AK and KS I'd say are in tossup territory not Lean R. KY... hovering on the cusp of Lean R and Tossup.

Stupid ass - who does this in an election year?

I have to wonder if there are young female Republicans that troll Dem politicians all day with sexy texts. Remember Wiener? What the fuck was that all about?

I just don't get it. If it was a consensual affair, why speak up?

how lucky was Bush Sr that no one came forward to derail his bid for presidency about his affair? I guess it's partly about luck. No way would he have won in 1988 if it was out there in the press

payola

Fucking Cal. God, give us a miracle !!! Let us win that fuking seat!!!

I'm so thankful I kept donating to KY, KS, IA, and MN. I need to start donating to Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi.

He’s a nut

he had a nut. nc may surprise ya'll.

[quote] Thom Tillis’ Ex-Wife Cites “Cruel and Inhuman Treatment” in Divorce Documents

That's boilerplate language in a divorce petition other than a recent No fault divorce.

From my interpretation, if Cunningham wins but is facing problems down the road with this (military prosecution) he could be sworn in at the beginning of January, and then resign forcing a special election. Worth a try...

Yeah, vote him in now and handle it later. Tillis has got to go.

Sounds like ol’ Cal left the lady unsatisfied. Should have worked harder, Cal.

I'd only fire him for lameness. Anyone here could write sexier texts.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth "postpones" fundraiser for Cunningham that was scheduled for Wednesday night.

She should. He refused to answer questions about more affairs. He’s a disaster

So he’s only human. What a shock.

Asked four times if there were more women yet to come forward, North Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Cal Cunningham (D) did not answer directly, the Raleigh News & Observer reports.

Said Cunningham: “I’ve taken responsibility for the hurt I’ve caused in my personal life. I’ve apologized for it. I’ve said what I’m going to say about it.”

Sen. Thom Tillis (R), Cunningham’s opponent in the race, has publicly discussed a second affair allegation against Cunningham, an unconfirmed one made on Facebook by an attorney who says she knows of that relationship.

Latest NC numbers (these guys are based on the state). Non-R respondents don't care enough to stop voting for Cunningham...

PPP’s new North Carolina poll finds Cal Cunningham leading Thom Tillis 48-42. That represents a slight improvement for Cunningham from PPP’s last public poll of the race in late July when Cunningham’s advantage was 48-44.

The news over the weekend is having somewhat of an impact on Cunningham’s favorability rating, with 37% saying they have a positive opinion of him to 39% with a negative one. But that -2 net favorability rating is still 21 points better than Tillis’- he’s at -23 with 31% of voters having a favorable opinion of him to 54% with an unfavorable one.

Friday's zoom news conference fiasco.

Highly rated poll out today has Cal with a double digit lead, having lost little to no support among women and gaining strongly amongst men since the infidelity claims.

Tillis’ support of ACB and his carelessness in catching the virus at the White House has hurt him.

[quote] and gaining strongly amongst men since the infidelity claims

Funny, after hearing about the allegations, I had wondered if that would happen. 😂😂

He's a vet and a pussy grabber. Sure he'll get rethug votes!

I wonder if Cal has a hairy chest?

In the North Carolina Senate race, Democratic challenger @CalforNC leads Republican incumbent @ThomTillis by 6 points.

- Cal Cunningham, 47% - Thom Tillis, 41%

#NCSen

NC media are so biased

North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham has mostly stuck to controlled virtual calls with interest groups and small, unannounced in-person appearances.

North Carolina Senate Polling:

Cunningham (D): 49% (+1) Tillis (R): 43% (+5)

CBS/YouGov / October 23, 2020 / n=1213 / Online

(% chg w Sept 25)

NBC/Marist poll of Florida Biden 51% (+3 from Sept) Trump 47% (-1) Oct 25-27, +/- 4.4%

In the other NC races, the NBC/Marist poll has it among likely voters:

NC-SEN Cunningham D 53% Tillis R 43%

NC-GOV Cooper D 59% Forest R 40%

NBC/Marist is a top-rated poll, so the Florida & NC results are promising.

Tillis is widely disliked and is now solely running negative ads. It’s been shown that negative ads turn off undecided voters, who want to hear policies. Cal has been focusing on policy arguments and what he’ll do when elected.

Cal is a douche. And he got caught, well admitted to it. And it seems like one of the reasons he's not North Carolina's newest Senator.

He would not have won any way, R133.

North Carolina went to Trump.

I honestly thought that NC was turning into a purple-ish blue state, but it seems to be going backwards, like Ohio and Iowa.

All three went for Obama in 2012, and now they're all part of Trump country.

NC went for Romney in 2012. Biden did twice as well as Hillary in NC. NC re-elected its Democratic Governor. That being said, I tried to tell y’all that you shouldn’t believe polls showing Biden winning NC because polls have consistently underestimated the Republican vote in NC by 3 to 5 points. And early voting trends showed Democrats were doing a crappy job of getting Democrats out to vote, while Republicans were stampeding to the poll. Additionally, Republicans were registering tons of new voters this year, while Democrats seemed to have suspended voter registration efforts. Stupid, stupid, stupid...

Cal Cunningham deserved to lose. Reckless

I do think that there was some underestimation on the part of Cunningham supporters in how much of an effect his personal issues would have on the election. I think people who had been cheated on (my guess being this is especially true of women) thought less of him for that and even if they claimed to say they stuck to policy issues, subconsciously this lowered his support. I suspect some people that would have voted for him without a doubt but who would have never voted for Tillis just left that space blank and that gave Tillis just enough of an edge.

Nate Silver: Feel like there's a lack of hot takes from Democrats blaming Cal Cunningham for his sexts. Probably made just enough difference in a 2-point race and a 51-vote Senate would be a different world since Sinema is more subject to electoral pressure (a primary challenge) than Manchin.

I'm still pissed at him. Not only do I think he would have won if not for the scandal, but he was one of my top picks as a future presidential candidate. He would have appealed to a lot blue collar and Midwest white voters.

I agree with you, R139. A completely botched and missed opportunity. If he had won, Manchin would not be in the catbird seat and we might be able to more easily get rid of that damnable filibuster.

What a putz. And what did he get out of it? Humiliation on a national stage.

He potentially had an affair? Who gives a fuck! The GOP are raping children, and running anyway. I know it's because none of them have morals or a conscience, but fuck it. He should run.

He would have been a good buffer against Manchin and Sinema, since Georgia was still up for grabs. Is he still married?

His conduct was utterly reckless and selfish