BuzzFeed reported in May that Davis, a former Democratic congressman from Alabama and one-time gubernatorial candidate, was considering running as a Republican in Virginia in the district represented by Connolly. Davis has since raised his profile in the Republican Party, campaigning on behalf of Mitt Romney and speaking at the Republican National Convention last week.
Connolly criticized the RNC, saying that “it was filled with cranky malcontents of a certain complexion and lacked anything remotely resembling the base of America.”
“And so what they always do is drag out a handful of people they do have — you mentioned one that’s just switched parties — they’re so desperate they put him on the friggin’ platform to speak,” Connolly said of Davis. “This is a guy who, you can look at his voting record — anyway, that’s how desperate they are.”
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