Rudy Giuliani cosplays as Abraham Lincoln in an effort to get out the vote

Rudy Giuliani cosplays as Abraham Lincoln in an effort to get out the vote
Rudy Giuliani cosplays as Abraham Lincoln in an effort to get out the vote

Rudy Giuliani chose a bizarre way to encourage Virginia voters to elect Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin - by posting a cringe-worthy video of himself as Abraham Lincoln.

In a tweet Tuesday night, the former New York City mayor posted a video of himself with an Abraham Lincoln filter over himself as he encouraged voters not to pick Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe.

'Virginia, vote against the man who dishonored our past by selling my bedroom hundreds and hundreds of times to scoundrels in a pay-for-play scheme,' he said in his best impersonation of the 16th president.

'In my time, we had a name for people who sold their bedrooms for one night,' he continued. 'In your time the name is Terry McAuliffe.

'End the Clinton sleaze once and for all,' he concluded.

In a tweet Tuesday afternoon, Rudy Giuliani posted a video of himself with an Abraham Lincoln filter over his face as he tried to encourage Virginia voters not to elect Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe

In a tweet Tuesday afternoon, Rudy Giuliani posted a video of himself with an Abraham Lincoln filter over his face as he tried to encourage Virginia voters not to elect Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe

Terry McAuliffe was caught up in a scandal during the Clinton administration after he sent a memo to the White House encouraging the president to reward top Democratic donors

He is facing Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin (pictured) in the Virginia gubernatorial race

The tweet was meant to get out the vote for Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin, right, who is facing McAuliffe, left, in the gubernatorial election

The video was apparently in reference to a Clinton-era scandal over a plan to let top Democratic donors stay in the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House - a controversy that originated with a memo McAuliffe sent to a White House official. 

The former president had been bombarded with questions about reports that dozens of prominent Democratic donors, some of whom gave upwards of $100,000 each, were rewarded with overnight stays in the Lincoln Bedroom, when a memo McAuliffe sent the White House emerged.

One White House official told the Associated Press at the time that the memo, which was signed by Clinton, showed he 'supported the idea that his friends and supporters, especially those who had supported him in the past... should be encouraged to do so in the future with a night over at the White House or attending White House events.

But McAuliffe, then a finance chairman for the Clinton-Gore campaign, said his memo did not specifically propose White House stays but did recommend that Democratic donors demoralized after the 1994 election losses 'get in, whether it be breakfast, lunch, dinner, coffee or something else.'

After it came to light, White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry

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