VA-GOV: Glenn Youngkin won't say if he wants Trump to campaign for him
WARRENTON, Va. — Republican Glenn Youngkin wouldn’t say Thursday whether he wants former President Donald Trump to campaign for him in the final weeks of Virginia's high-stakes gubernatorial election and distanced himself from a controversial right-wing rally supporting his candidacy the night before.
“The person that’s going to be campaigning here for the next two-and-half weeks is Glenn Youngkin. I am on the ballot,” he told reporters, referring to himself in the third-person after a campaign event in a public park.
Youngkin — who is trying to walk a fine line by appealing to both “forever Trumpers and never Trumpers,” as he puts it — said he didn’t know about Wednesday's “Take Back Virginia Rally” in Richmond, where attendees pledged allegiance to a flag organizers said was present at the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
“I wasn’t involved, so I don’t know. But if that was the case, then we shouldn’t pledge allegiance to that flag," Youngkin said. "And by the way, I’ve been so clear, there is no place for violence — none, none — in America today. We have our rights to assemble and protest protected...but there is no room for violence.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/virginia-republican-glenn-youngkin-won-t-say-if-he-wants-n1281575
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