GOP's Youngkin stays away from 'Take Back Virginia' rally featuring former President Trump and Steve Bannon.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin greets voters at a Parents Matter GOTV Rally, on Oct. 13, 2021 in Culpeper, Va.RICHMOND, Va. — Former President Donald Trump and other Republicans tried to fire up the party’s right-wing base ahead ofWednesday at a rally marked by falsehoods about the 2020 election and tirades against vaccine and mask mandates.
“Glenn Youngkin is a great gentleman,” said Trump, who had previously endorsed Youngkin, before he reiterated his lie that that Democrat Joe Biden won the White House because of mass voter fraud.Other speakers at the “Take Back Virginia Rally” included former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon; Rep. Mark Finchem of Arizona, who has worked to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss in the state; and Virginia state Sen. Amanda Chase, a prominent promoter of election fraud conspiracy theories.
Rally attendees recited the Pledge of Allegiance to a flag the event’s emcee said was carried at the “peaceful” rally Trump attended before his supporters stormed the Capitol in a deadly attempted insurrection on Jan. 6.“Glenn Youngkin has made it clear: his top priority is bringing Donald Trump’s dangerous agenda to Virginia.
by the Senate on a bipartisan basis earlier this year, has called for an “audit” of the 2020 election in Virginia and in December said Trump should invoke martial law to seize voting machines.“We are going to do something about election integrity. And I know what’s going on, the Youngkin campaign knows what’s going on. We are watching like we have never watched before,” she told the crowd.confirmedTrump’s former attorney general, William Barr, found no evidence of widespread election corruption.
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