''trump in heels'' - too bad for youngkin
''Republicans in Virginia are saying what their nominee for governor will not: The governors race is a proxy for Mr. Trumps grievances.
State Senator Amanda Chase, a Virginia Republican who has called herself Trump in heels, spoke at a Take Back Virginia rally on Wednesday.Credit...Carlos Bernate for The New York Times
Astead W. Herndon
By Astead W. Herndon
Oct. 16, 2021, 2:00 p.m. ET
GLEN ALLEN, Va. The event was billed as a rally for Virginia conservatives ahead of next months election for governor. But it was mostly about Donald J. Trump.
Each speaker, addressing the crowd of hundreds just outside the state capital of Richmond, declared the former president the rightful winner of the last presidential election and the assumed winner of the next one. The audience raved when Mr. Trump gave a short address over the phone.
But it was the speaker after Mr. Trump who made the pivot from national to local. Amanda Chase, a state senator from Amelia County who has called herself Trump in heels, explicitly tied the former president to Glenn Youngkin, the states Republican nominee for governor. Supporting one required supporting the other, she said. . . ''
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/16/us/politics/glenn-youngkin-virginia-governor-trump.html