Merle Rutledge has been climbing the ladder and the whole Virginia GOP is noticing. At the Chasing Freedom Gubernatorial Debate would showcase Amanda Chase, Merle Rutledge, Kurt Santini, and De La Pena squaring off in the race for Governor of Virginia. The host Thomas Speciale kept order while moderating clearly a battle of heavy weights with Rutledge going for the first strike against Amanda Chase. Merle Rutledge would signal that he was in attack mode as he introduce himself for a half of minute ending in “Let’s get it on!” Rutledge would than go right in on Amanda Chase calling her out for being a RINO and Flip Flopper on key issues facing Virginians. Amanda Chase would respond that she was never for the shut down and Rutledge would hit her with old posts that showed she supported Northam shut down at the beginning after a close family member was infected with COVID that Chase knew and she wore a mask to a hair salon during the crisis.
Moreover, Amanda Chase being clearly bothered by being combated with confrontation would try to say Rutledge needed a breathalyer and said “his wife found him unfit to be Governor!” Rutledge would than go in on his smarter drunk than Chase sober by nailing her on her Facebook Marxist Promotion in Richmond, Va, lying on 5 different police agencies, and also brought up her inappropriate relationship with Mike Dunn. Mike Dunn is famous for being BLM757 security and a so called leader of the Booga Bois in Virginia. Dunn bragged about fireteams storming the U.S Capitol on Jan 6, 2021 attack while Amanda Chase called police brutal murderers. Dunn is an outspoken Chase supporter, staff member, and friend, but he has always said he doesn’t care for Former President Donald J. Trump. Amanda Chase would fire back that she had opposition research on Merle Rutledge and she wasn’t afraid to use it. Merle Rutledge would unload on her again calling her out for her vote to deny relief to businesses, renters, and landlords during the height the pandemic in which the Federal Government was having partisan fights on COVID relief. Chase vote delayed any consideration of relief till May 2021 and thousands of businesses shut down as time expired on their reserves after this vote.
However, Chase would try to respond back to Rutledge, but was caught by her rebuttal time to Merle Rutledge attack as he taunted her for not being able to get a word in response. Amanda Chase was asked by the moderator would she support the nominee for the GOP after the May primary if she lost. Chase eluded that all options are on the table if the convention was rigged and wouldn’t go as far as other candidates in backing the nominee outright. This would leave questions in a lot of Conservative insider circles that Amanda Chase would run as an independent if she didn’t like the outcome, which would ultimately give Democrats a third party to split the Republican vote. Amanda Chase threaten to run as an independent in 2020 and quickly withdrew her Independent status, after the backlash of the Republican Party for doing so. Rutledge would fire back that we have no time for flip floppers or uncertain candidates on where they stand with the GOP nominee. He would unload an epic rant that stated your either Republican or not and only RINO’s use tactics like that to blackmail the Party. The debate can be watched below through Youtube. Most Conservatives gave Merle Rutledge the victory for being on the attack and holding Chase accountable to her flip flops. Rutledge is becoming a dominate force to be reckon with and the Virginia GOP is taking a lot of notice of his campaign. Amanda Chase and Rutledge exchange on Chase third party, “all options open” threat to whomever is the GOP nominee can be watched in this short clip provided by the Rutledge for Virginia Governor Campaign by clicking on the following link or copying and pasting in the browser – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw2Q0CfV_zY
Furthermore, If Amanda Chase is going to be the nominee, she needs to start looking at better ways to not make gaffes that costs her supporters and gives ammunition to her other rivals. Amanda Chase major claim to trying to win the nomination is that she has raised more money than all her Republican Candidates and knows how Richmond works. However, Rutledge would strike again to say Justin Fairfax, which is last place in fundraising on the Democrats Gubernatorial Candidate side is out-raising Amanda Chase by double.
Lastly, You could easily forget Santini and De La Pena was even in the forum because of the back and forth between Rutledge and Amanda Chase. However, De La Pena came off with a inclusive tone that he feels can resonate in Northern Virginia. Only time will tell, but De La Pena will have to make more noise in a clearly brutal election campaign cycle from the GOP. It is clear that no one is backing down from each other and allowing the gloves to come off. Cox, Synder, Doran, and Youngkin was a “No Show!” They have only appeared in one Gubernatorial Forum for the Fredericksburg Tea Party Patriots and has been missing every since. The question for fellow Republicans are why are they skipping Zoom Forums that has Amanda Chase and Merle Rutledge as participants. However, the overall opinion is Merle Rutledge wins again and his fight with Amanda Chase is the only reason why people stayed watching the Chasing Freedom Gubernational 2021 forum.
Merle Rutledge victory speech after the Chasing Freedom Gubernatorial Forum clicking here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoi1QQmuW0w
The Chasing Freedom Gubernatorial Forum can be watched by clicking here or copying and pasting link into your browser – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XUqIUjWZ7E
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