And just like that, Democrats are now pro-FBI, all in the name of owning cons..
The same agency that suppressed numerous civil rights groups and it's leaders, breach of conduct, spying, abuse of people's civil liberties, etc..
Anyways, this won't change anything.
Not pro-FBI. Just more pro-justice than reflexively anti-FBI. The FBI has done a lot of bad stuff which Democrats have opposed, but when it does the right thing, as it did here, you won't see Democrats reflexively oppose the FBI for the sake of opposing them. They oppose the FBI when it does bad things, and support it when it does the right thing. It's not an all-or-nothing binary and it has nothing to do with "owning the cons."
But yeah, I agree that the GOP candidates' respective statements won't really change anything as far as electoral outcome is concerned. VA02 was and is Tilt/Lean R, and VA07 was and is Lean D.
Not really just about the statements themselves - the point is that the two can't act like they're some type of moderate for this district. Both are doubling down with hard right partisan nonsense, and I don't see how that plays well in either district.
Kiggans whole bit was that she was some type of 'center R' and that facade is clearly faded.