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MANASSAS, Virginia A routine campaign stop for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin turned chaotic on Saturday night after the candidate's team was forced to boot a local Republican leader and apparent white nationalist from the event, causing a scene that a spokesperson called "antithetical" to the Republican hopeful's message.
The incident happened just before Youngkin was slated to give a stump speech to a crowd of "Latinos for Youngkin" at a local restaurant, when campaign officials approached a man, named Fredy Burgos, who was wearing both a red pro-Trump hat emblazoned with "Build the Wall" and a pin promoting white nationalist and Unite the Right rally attendee Nicholas Fuentes.
Burgos is a longtime far-right activist and former local Republican party official who made waves during the Trump years with a series of bombastic statements that earned him plenty of enemies in local conservative circles. The Washington Post, reporting on a 2018 drive to oust him from his post on the Fairfax County Republican Party committee, wrote that he was a "verbal bomb-thrower whose attacks against Muslims, immigrants and others have turned off moderates."
He even appeared alongside several of Fuentes' white nationalist followers known online as Groypers at a Loudoun County School Board meeting recently, which has become a local flashpoint in the nationwide right-wing campaign to ban anti-racist lessons in public schools.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/virginia-gop-candidate-glenn-youngkin-forced-to-boot-white-nationalist-supporter-from-campaign-event/ar-AAPDtuZ
Face it Youngkin, your party attracts a lot of these types.
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Lovie777
(11,992 posts)and that is bad news for Virginia.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Demovictory9
(32,323 posts)TheRealNorth
(9,435 posts)FarPoint
(12,209 posts)he just want's to hide some of his white nationalist racist supporters and donors from the main stage for now.....It is his heart beat group overall...
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)Don't vote! The election is rigged. Just stay home in protest!