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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Yesli Vega [1]

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Date: 2022-12-18

GOP Congressional candidate for VA-7, Yesli Vega, who cast doubt on if women can get pregnant if they are raped.

Welcome to what is the 1166th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’re profiling Yesli Vega, a 2022 candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, looking to flip the seat held by Democratic Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger for the GOP. Vega is the daughter of Honduran immigrants who was raised in Houston, making the fact that she held decidedly anti-immigrant views to blindly support Border Patrol and was endorsed by white nationalist Donald Trump makes that potentially inspirational story seem like a betrayal of it. But hey, at least she immediately deleted all traces of his endorsement from her website immediately after winning the Republican primary for the seat.



The biggest flag, however, was that Yesli Vega was recorded discussing the possibility that women are less likely or unable to get pregnant if they were raped.

Vega spent the rest of the campaign denying she made the remarks there was an audio recording of.



Yesli Vega ended up losing to Abigail Spanberger with 48% of the vote. She seems like she’s going to be involved in Virginia politics at some level for the forseeable future, but hopefully her remarks on rape make her a bit more radioactive and keep her out of higher office.

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