Jason Lewis apparently filmed himself knocking on doors not in his district

[dflprincess]

Of course, he doesn't live in the 2nd so how could he know?



https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/gop-rep-jason-lewis-filmed-himself-canvassing-voters-outside-his-district?fbclid=IwAR3ZPE06la2RTPNK_cu6Bcbnz0NCenSWaU34OvjVUi6uHDVDRcXihRG_3rk

An incumbent Republican congressman mocked his Democratic opponent as “manufactured” in a campaign video released Monday. But the video, which shows the congressman acting like he’s canvassing voters in a suburban Minnesota neighborhood, doesn’t appear to have been filmed in the congressman’s actual district.

Instead, Rep. Jason Lewis (R-MN) apparently filmed it in the suburb he calls home, one district north of the area he represents in Congress.

Lewis’ campaign video, called “A manufactured Craig vs. an honest Lewis,” shows him holding what look to be campaign materials and walking away from the front door of an upscale home, as if he had just spoken to a voter in his district about his re-election campaign. He waves to someone off-camera.

Addressing his online audience, Lewis mocks his Democratic opponent, Angie Craig, for one of her campaign ads. “Anybody can put on a flannel shirt and pretend to be something they’re not,” Lewis says, adding at the end of the video: “While she’s still at the bar, I’ll stay out here being honest with voters.”

But, according to TPM’s analysis following an emailed tip, Lewis couldn’t have been talking to his own voters in the video: Instead, it looks like he was filming in Woodbury, the wealthy Minneapolis suburb in which he lives, north of the district he represents in Washington, D.C.

“He was walking out of the house, and it had a house number on it,” Deneen Hinrichs, a Lewis constituent who’s voting for Craig, told TPM over the phone Monday. “It was kind of hard to see, but I paused the video, took a picture of it, and zoomed in.”...

...“Once somebody matched up the house in the video to an address, we realized that this was just the house right around the corner from his,” Hansen added.

[geardaddy]

1. Don't reps have to live in their district to represent their district?

[dflprincess]

2. They do not. nt