An aide for Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin on Friday appeared to accuse Democratic opponent Terry McAuliffe’s team of dressing Youngkin supporters up as …
An aide for Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin on Friday appeared to accuse Democratic opponent Terry McAuliffe’s team of dressing Youngkin supporters up as tiki torch-carrying white nationalists in a bid to link him to racism. “Terry McAuliffe’s campaign has been the dirtiest, nastiest, most dishonest campaign in Virginia history. This morning they’re closing out his career by going even lower,” Youngkin campaign communications director Matt Wolking said in a tweet. His heated comments came after apparently false allegations emerged on Twitter that a local group of Democrats had posed as white supremacists next to a Youngkin campaign bus Friday while holding tiki torches — a nod to the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017.
