Terry McAuliffe has for months tried to make Trump a central issue in the Virginia governor’s race, but with limited success until Wednesday.
Trump’s involvement in the event, however, almost seemed part of a larger plan to divert attention away from Youngkin, who polls show is within striking distance of Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe, and back to the former president.In a bizarre twist, attendees at the Bannon rallywhile facing an American flag that appeared to be used as a quasi-religious object memorializing the Jan. 6 insurrection. Organizers said the flag had been carried by someone who traveled to Washington on Jan.
And on Thursday, Bannon was again in the news, as the Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection said they would be voting next week to refer him to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution for refusing to honor a subpoena. McAuliffe quickly seized on the insertion of Trump and his allies into the race. “Glenn Youngkin needs to disavow the insurrection,” McAuliffe said in a hastily arranged Zoom press conference Thursday morning with reporters. “I would love to hear my opponent say what they did on the Capitol grounds on January 6 is unacceptable. ... Say the January 6 insurrection was wrong.”Later in the day, with social media still buzzing over the flag incident, Youngkin released a written statement.
Indeed, McAuliffe has for months tried to make Trump a central issue in the governor’s race, but with limited success until Wednesday. Youngkin had done enough to satisfy Trump supporters but also kept his distance from the former president, who continues to promote election falsehoods. “I don’t think the Trump stuff has worked on [Youngkin] to date because he just doesn’t come across that way,” Tucker Martin, who worked as an aide to former Gov. Bob McDonnell, told Yahoo News. Martin said the question for Youngkin as the campaign enters the final stretch before Election Day on Nov. 2, is how long Trump remains a focus in the race.
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