‘She won’t lose next time’: Failed Democratic candidate who streamed sex acts for money says she might run for office again

Susanna Gibson, a failed Democratic candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates whose X-rated livestreams resurfaced during her campaign, told The Associated Press that she is not ruling out another run for office.

My colleagues and I spoke with Susanna Gibson about the videos that emerged during her House campaign, why she “never” thought about dropping out of the race, her regrets, and what she hopes to do next: https://t.co/ZdykW0e1oS

– Sara Rankin (@sarah_rankin) November 17, 2023

Gibson, who required tips from viewers while live streaming sexual acts with their husband on the Chaturbate website, lost to Republican candidate David Owen on November 7 by a narrow margin of just 966 votes, according to Ballotpedia. (RELATED: Virginia Democratic candidate filmed herself urinating outside… and no, she’s not the one who was already caught doing porn)

in a interview In a post published by the AP on Friday, he refused to rule out another political campaign. She also maintained that a crime was committed when members of the media were alerted to the existence of videos that she voluntarily livestreamed to the Internet. “Consent to allowing someone to see something that exists only as a moment in time or that exists only in their memory is very different from allowing someone to have something that remains a permanent object and can be shared or viewed indefinitely,” he said. to the conference. exit.

His attorney Daniel Watkins claimed that posting the videos violated revenge porn laws, which criminalize the “malicious” dissemination of sexual images of another person with the intent to “coerce, harass or intimidate,” AP noted.

Others have portrayed Gibson as the perpetrator rather than the victim of a crime, and two attorneys told the daily cable who believe they could charge her under Virginia’s prostitution law for accepting money to perform specific sexual acts.

The Washington Post, which initially broke the story, obtained the videos from Recurbate, a publicly accessible website that archives broadcasts from Chaturbate, the outlet. claims.

gibson told the AP that the videos showed consensual sexual acts between romantic couples and should not have merited news coverage. Ken Nunnenkamp, ​​executive director of the Virginia Republican Party, said they were disqualifying from public office, noting that he “didn’t believe it was consensual sex that voters were questioning, but rather the fact that it was broadcast online.” , according to the AP.

While she was vague about her future political ambitions, she told the AP that “I won’t lose next time.”