Abigail Spanberger’s carefully crafted moderate image is crumbling.
Her campaign is hemorrhaging credibility as scandals pile up.
And now undercover video caught this Abigail Spanberger campaign staffer confessing an awful truth that has Virginia Democrats in full panic mode.
Spanberger has spent her entire campaign trying to paint herself as a moderate Democrat focused on making life affordable for Virginians.
The former CIA officer turned Congresswoman has carefully avoided taking positions that might upset the progressive base while simultaneously claiming to be the reasonable choice for swing voters.
That balancing act just collapsed spectacularly.
Campaign organizer caught spilling secrets on hidden camera
An explosive undercover video obtained exclusively by Townhall shows Spanberger campaign organizer Fredrica-Maame Ama Deegbe admitting what Virginia progressives are going to hate hearing.¹
The campaign has been taking money from AIPAC.
"Yes, she’s taken like AIPAC money," Deegbe admits in the video before immediately realizing what she just revealed.²
"Should I not have told you that?" she asks nervously. "Are you wearing a wire?"³
Too late.
The damage was already done.
Progressives have declared war on AIPAC for years, with prominent Democrats like Senator Bernie Sanders calling for an outright boycott of the pro-Israel lobbying group.⁴
The radical left sees AIPAC as the enemy, spending too much money targeting progressive incumbents and supporting Israel’s military operations.
Spanberger’s relationship with AIPAC goes deeper than her campaign organizer probably realized she was admitting.
According to campaign finance data tracked by advocacy groups, Spanberger has received more than $569,000 from AIPAC and their allies since being elected to Congress in 2018.⁵
That’s not pocket change for someone claiming to represent everyday Virginians.
Campaign drowning in cash from rich leftists
But Deegbe didn’t stop with just the AIPAC bombshell.
She went on to reveal something that completely contradicts Spanberger’s entire campaign message about fighting for working families.
"She doesn’t need any more money," Deegbe said about the campaign’s fundraising haul.⁶
"It would be a crime, honestly, if they gave her more money."⁷
Talk about saying the quiet part out loud.
Spanberger has vastly out-raised Republican Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears in this race.
The Washington Post reported back in April that Spanberger raised $6.7 million during the first three months of the year alone – double what Earle-Sears brought in.⁸
Where’s all that money coming from?
Not from hardworking Virginians struggling to pay their bills.
Spanberger’s campaign is being bankrolled by wealthy leftist donors and organizations from outside Virginia, including a $100,000 donation from James and Kathryn Murdoch – the liberal younger son and daughter in-law of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.⁹
That’s the same Spanberger who claims she’s fighting to make life more affordable for Virginia families.
The same candidate who says she doesn’t take corporate PAC money – while accepting contributions from leadership PACs that are themselves funded by corporate money from Amazon, Microsoft, Pfizer, Lockheed Martin, General Motors and Dominion.¹⁰
Pattern of taking money from questionable sources
This isn’t the first time Spanberger’s campaign funding has raised serious ethical questions.
Earlier this year, it was revealed that Spanberger accepted $50,000 from Pin Ni, president of Wanxiang America – a Chinese automotive executive with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party.¹¹
Ni serves as executive vice president of the China-based parent company Wanxiang Group, whose founder was posthumously awarded the title of "National Outstanding Communist Party Member" by the CCP.¹²
The company’s press releases praised the founder for "always listening to the Party and following the Party."¹³
This is the same Spanberger who served as a CIA officer and has positioned herself as tough on China.
Yet she had no problem taking tens of thousands of dollars from someone celebrated by the Chinese Communist Party.
When pressed about these donations, Spanberger’s campaign hides behind technicalities – claiming the donor is a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, so the contributions are technically legal.
That completely misses the point.
The question isn’t whether these donations are technically legal.
The question is whether someone running for governor of Virginia should be taking money from Chinese Communist Party members and their American allies.
Campaign staffer reveals troubling lack of confidence
Perhaps most damaging of all, Deegbe let slip that she’s "not optimistic" about Spanberger’s chances despite the massive fundraising advantage.¹⁴
Even though she said she has to believe Spanberger can win, the staffer’s body language and tone suggested otherwise.
That’s remarkable considering Spanberger holds a lead in most recent polls.
Recent polling shows the race tightening, with Spanberger’s once double-digit advantage shrinking to single digits as election day approaches.¹⁵
Voters are starting to see through the carefully constructed moderate facade.
They’re learning about her radical positions on abortion, her support for California-style electric vehicle mandates, her votes for massive Biden spending bills that fueled inflation, and her willingness to accept money from anyone willing to write a check.
Spanberger can’t claim to be fighting for Virginia families when her campaign is funded by wealthy leftists, Chinese Communist Party members, and controversial lobbying groups that progressives despise.
The undercover video exposes what many Virginia conservatives have known all along – Spanberger is just another radical leftist willing to say whatever it takes to get elected while taking money from the highest bidder.
Her campaign staffer’s candid admissions on hidden camera reveal the truth that Spanberger has been desperate to hide.
Virginia voters deserve to know who’s really bankrolling Abigail Spanberger’s campaign and what those donors expect in return.
¹ Amy Curtis, "Exclusive: Spanberger Campaign Caught on Video—Staffer Confirms AIPAC Cash and No Hope for Change," Townhall, October 23, 2025.
² Ibid.
³ Ibid.
⁴ Ibid.
⁵ AIPAC Tracker, "Rep. Abigail Spanberger supports delivering more bombs for Israel," X (formerly Twitter), accessed October 23, 2025.
⁶ Amy Curtis, "Exclusive: Spanberger Campaign Caught on Video—Staffer Confirms AIPAC Cash and No Hope for Change," Townhall, October 23, 2025.
⁷ Ibid.
⁸ Ibid.
⁹ Jon Levine, "James and Kathryn Murdoch have donated more than $100,000 to Abigail Spanberger’s campaign," X (formerly Twitter), October 13, 2025.
¹⁰ PolitiFact Virginia, "Spanberger doesn’t take money from corporate PACs, but corporate money is hard to avoid," VPM, September 14, 2022.
¹¹ Alana Goodman, "Virginia Gubernatorial Hopeful Abigail Spanberger Raked In $50,000 From CCP Member and EV Tycoon," Washington Free Beacon, August 6, 2025.
¹² Ibid.
¹³ Ibid.
¹⁴ Amy Curtis, "Exclusive: Spanberger Campaign Caught on Video—Staffer Confirms AIPAC Cash and No Hope for Change," Townhall, October 23, 2025.
¹⁵ Markus Schmidt, "Spanberger’s lead narrows as Virginia races tighten in new VCU poll," Virginia Mercury, October 21, 2025.
