On Thursday, the Guardian reported that two Republican activists in Arizona, one of whom was apparently a field organizer for the state party, hatched an incredibly strange plan to make Democratic Rep. Tom O’Halleran look bad: dress up as communists, donate to his campaign, and then spread the message that his campaign took money from communists.
Their plan was reportedly thwarted because campaign staffers realized from the couple’s strange behavior that the donation was not being made in good faith:
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/republican-plot-smear-democratic-candidate-communist-sympathizer-blows-faces/