VA GOP candidate Glenn Youngkin financed a PAC that supports 2020 deniers and 1/6 apologists

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Virginia GOP candidate Glenn Youngkin financed a PAC that supports 2020 deniers and 1/6 apologists
He's trying to come across as reasonable but he's funding GOP extremists.
motherjones.com
7:34 AM · Oct 21, 2021

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/10/virginia-gop-candidate-glenn-youngkin-financed-a-pac-that-supports-2020-deniers-and-1-6-apologists/


When Glenn Youngkin was running for the Republican nomination in Virginia’s gubernatorial contest earlier this year, he refused to say whether Joe Biden had legitimately won the 2020 election. Then after he secured the nomination, he acknowledged on Fox that Biden indeed “was legitimately elected our president.” A few weeks ago, Youngkin even said that he would have voted to certify the election had he been a member of Congress. And when right-wing supporters of his campaign recently held a rally where they pledged allegiance to a flag flown at a pro-Trump demonstration in Washington, DC, on January 6 before the Capitol Hill riot, Youngkin called this act “weird and wrong” and denounced the violence of January 6.

But throughout the tight race that pits him against former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe, Youngkin has been striving to have it both ways: come across as a reasonable Republican in a state Biden won by 10 points, while still embracing the endorsement he received from Donald Trump and playing footsie with Trump’s baseless claim the election was stolen by repeatedly calling for “election integrity.” Yet in one important aspect, Youngkin has signaled his full support for the Trump conspiracy crowd: he has funneled his own personal cash into the campaigns of Big Lie advocates and 1/6 apologists.

In August, Youngkin, the former CEO of the Carlyle Group, announced he would pump $1 million into Virginia Wins, a political action committee that supports down-ballot Republican candidates in the state. (Youngkin’s personal fortune is estimated at about $440 million, and he has loaned his campaign at least $16.5 million.) According to Virginia state campaign finance records, Youngkin kept his word: his million-dollar donation to the PAC accounts for almost all of the $1,043,500 the group had raised as of September 30. And a good chunk of this money has gone to Trump Republicans who echo Trump’s claim of fraud and who downplay the violent Trump-incited raid on Congress.

Here are a few recipients of Virginia Wins’ largesse:

Delegate Ronnie Campbell. Days after the 2020 election, Campbell began pushing the false claim that the results were fraudulent. “The Democrats are trying to steal this election,” he proclaimed on Facebook, while spreading disinformation about the results. In January, he and two other Republican delegates sent Vice President Mike Pence a letter requesting he nullify the state’s election certification, claiming that Virginia’s electors had been “unconstitutionally and fraudulently elected.” (Campbell and the other two were each stripped of one committee assignment for this stunt by the Democratic House speaker, who denounced this attempt to disenfranchise Virginia voters.) Virginia Wins has given Campbell $3,000.

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[Dawson Leery]

1. Will this move the polls against Glen?

[riversedge]

2. I read last week that Youngkin was actively distencing himself from Trump.

[lagomorph777]

3. Too late. McCauliffe has been running Trumpkin's pro-Trump quotes nonstop for weeks.

[riversedge]

4. McAuliffe and Youngkin are tied in Virginia governor's race less than two weeks from Election Day,

Good. I do hope that McAuliffe's message breaks though these last few weeks.






https://www.wric.com/news/politics/local-election-hq/mcauliffe-and-youngkin-are-tied-in-virginia-governors-race-less-than-two-weeks-from-election-day-new-poll-shows/


McAuliffe and Youngkin are tied in Virginia governor’s race less than two weeks from Election Day, new poll shows
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by: Dean Mirshahi
Posted: Oct 20, 2021 / 04:28 PM EDT / Updated: Oct 20, 2021 / 06:03 PM EDT


RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — With less than two weeks before Election Day, a new poll shows Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin tied in Virginia’s race for governor.

Both McAuliffe and Youngkin had the support of 46% of registered voters in the Monmouth University poll released Wednesday. The race has tightened as the GOP gubernatorial nominee continues to gain ground on McAuliffe, closing the five-point gap found in a similar poll from September.

In that Monmouth poll, former Gov. McAuliffe had 48% support among registered voters to Youngkin’s 43%. But the double-digit swing in support from independent voters is the most jarring, with McAuliffe’s 9% lead in September becoming a 9% deficit in Wednesday’s poll. ............................

[lagomorph777]

5. My ballot arrived today and will be turned in by tonight.

[riversedge]

7. ****

[budkin]

6. It seems to be helping him... polls are TIED

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