Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to campaign for Paul LePage despite the former Maine governor's history of racially inflammatory rhetoric.
Youngkin is scheduled to headline a LePage fundraiser in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday, as Virginia’s General Assembly convenes for a one-day special session to select a handful of local judges and possibly a member of the State Corporation Commission.as governor despite repeated controversies, is seeking to unseat Gov. Janet Mills . The race is expected to be competitive.
Asked the same question a day later, Youngkin himself said he was unaware of any controversy about LePage’s rhetoric, which made national news in 2016 — “Maine’s governor is completely unhinged,” read the headline on a Washington Post editorial — and which the liberal Blue Virginia blog recapped Aug. 29 under its own, hard-to-miss banner: “Glenn Youngkin to Campaign for Unhinged, Extremist, Racist Former Maine Gov.
“As I have planned out our fall schedule, what I’m trying to do is help Republicans win,” said Youngkin, who establishedto bankroll out-of-state campaign travel. “I believe the philosophy that we espouse — of small government, and low taxes, and fiscal responsibility, and a growing economy, and really supporting parents and schools for great education, and standing up for law enforcement — they all come together to deliver better outcomes for states.
“Why didn’t he do some research and rebuke it?” she said. “So now he knows, so why is he still going? Because he doesn’t give a snap?”
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