Leslie Cockburn Is She Running Again
Olivia Wilde'south Mom Loses to Candidate Who She Accused of Being a 'Devotee of Bigfoot Erotica'
The actress' mom lost to Republican candidate Denver Riggleman in Virginia'south 5th Congressional District race
As the midterm elections came to a close on Tuesday, it was revealed that Cockburn, who was running every bit a Democrat in Virginia's fifth Congressional District race, had fallen to Republican candidate Denver Riggleman.
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Prior to the results, Wilde, 34, shared a sweetness bulletin to her mother on Instagram. Alongside 2 black-and-white photos of the pair, the actress explained that she was proud of Cockburn regardless of the outcome.
"Equally we wait for the votes to come up in, I simply want to say I'k proud of you and I dearest you lot," she wrote. "Cheers for showing usa what'south possible. No matter what happens, you changed my world and healed my heart."
Olivia Wilde hugging her mom Leslie Cockburn
| Credit: Olivia Wilde/Instagram
Once the results were officially announced, Wilde posted another Instagram in honor of her mother and acknowledged the loss but highlighted the silvery lining in the state of affairs.
"My incredible mother speaking to her supporters, thanking them for their tireless piece of work, and urging them all to stay determined," she captioned the mail. "Nosotros may have lost this fight, but it'due south only fabricated u.s.a. more resolute."
"It'due south fourth dimension to roll upwards our sleeves and go to work," she continued. "A lot of progress was made tonight and nosotros need to go along the blue wave rolling! I'm sending all my love to everyone who worked on this campaign. You restored my faith in this country. ❤️"
Over the summertime, the honour-winning investigative journalist, 66, made headlines when she defendant her opponent of having a Bigfoot erotica fetish and being aligned with a white supremacist.
"My opponent Denver Riggleman, running mate of Corey Stewart, was defenseless on photographic camera campaigning with a white supremacist," she wrote on Twitter in July. "Now he has been exposed as a devotee of Bigfoot erotica. This is not what nosotros need on Capitol Hill."
Along with the accusations, Cockburn posted a screenshot from Riggleman'due south Instagram featuring a hairy, muscular Bigfoot with his genitals covered by a "censored" bar. The image, co-ordinate to Riggleman's own explanation, was expected to be used as the cover art for his upcoming book.
In a divide tweet, Cockburn posted another screenshot to Twitter from the politician's "erotica drove" — this fourth dimension, with Riggleman's face photoshopped over Bigfoot'due south torso that featured a long gray rectangle over his genitals.
The political leader had captioned the photo: "My 'buddies' thought this pic was fitting for my birthday side by side week and to celebrate my new book release in a month or 2… 'Mating Habits of Bigfoot and Why Women Want Him.'"
Denver Riggleman
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Riggleman, a former Air Strength veteran and brewery possessor who has written a cocky-published volume called Bigfoot Exterminators, Inc.: The Partially Cautionary, Mostly Truthful Tale of Monster Chase 2006, but he said while he has an interest in bigfoots he denied information technology was asexual one in an interview with CNN.
In it, he claimed Cockburn's suggestion that he has a "sexual involvement in Bigfoot" was "absurd" and explained that his comments on the subject were rooted in an ongoing joke with former military machine friends.
His Instagram account settings have since been changed to private.
Leslie Cockburn (left) and her daughter Olivia Wilde
| Credit: Mike Coppola/FilmMagic
Cockburn was inspired to run for Congress in low-cal of the Charlottesville protests that happened in August 2017. She was campaigning for the seat vacated by Republican representative Thomas Garrett, who stepped away in May subsequently announcing he was an alcoholic.
Just last month, Wilde — who has previously spoken out nigh her progressive views — told PEOPLE she was confident in her female parent's abilities to run and succeed in a traditionally conservative land.
"Information technology's a deep red district," Wilde told PEOPLE at an event celebrating her collaboration with Dunkin'. "But she has already worked then hard on it that information technology's now a neck-and-cervix race between her and the Republican nominee."
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"It'due south a very conservative district, but there are a lot of people [at that place] who are more progressive in terms of thinking. Simply they've never had a representative who actually stood up for those values," Wilde continued. "And at present my mom gets to exist that for the people of the 5th district as a nominee and hopefully as their Congressperson!"
"She has a totally grassroots campaign," Wilde said of her mother, "with four,500 volunteers. They've knocked on 50,000 doors and she'south revisited counties ten times. She's so dedicated then it's a actually exciting fourth dimension for the whole family unit."
Source: https://people.com/politics/olivia-wilde-mom-leslie-cockburn-loses-election/
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