Republican governor is anti-abortion, anti-trans and a ‘nightmare’ for Democrats
t looked, sounded and felt like the start of a US presidential campaign. “The stakes are high and the consequences couldn’t be greater,” said Glenn Youngkin inthat showed the Virginia governor walking in Ronald Reagan’s footsteps at the 40th president’s library in Simi Valley, California, complete with Air Force One and a fragment of the Berlin wall.
Youngkin claims that, as governor, he has passed the biggest education budget in Virginia’s history, cut taxes, encouraged investment and boosted military veterans. He remains a hugely divisive figure. He endorsedinto why an unknown number of people were wrongly purged from Virginia’s voter rolls because they were mistakenly listed as felons, as well asHe campaigned with election deniers such as Kari Lake of Arizona, calling her “awesome”.
Youngkin is not on the ballot next month but he has a significant personal investment in the outcome. He is appearing in an ad for, a supervisor in Loudon county who represents the Algonquin district, said: “It’s a critical year for Loudoun county and for the entire state because abortion rights, voting rights, healthcare in general are all on the chopping block.
“I don’t know if he’s playing a game. People do move, they shift, they change. ‘I have this moment of epiphany that not only is it required that I become fiercely anti-abortion to be a member of this Republican party but now I’m believing it too.’ The same thing over trans school kids and whatever they mean by critical race theory. We become what we pretend to be very often.”
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