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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,085 posts)
Mon Oct 18, 2021, 01:12 PM Oct 2021

Virginia GOP candidate Glenn Youngkin forced to boot white nationalist supporter from campaign event

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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Virginia GOP candidate Glenn Youngkin forced to boot white nationalist supporter from campaign event (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2021 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Oct 2021 #1
This guy is a typical republican . ... Lovie777 Oct 2021 #2
ahhh, don't really want to take in the brownshirts when you are trying to con the Latinos eh? Thomas Hurt Oct 2021 #3
exactly Demovictory9 Oct 2021 #4
For all we know, this could have been staged.... TheRealNorth Oct 2021 #5
Seems to me..... FarPoint Oct 2021 #6
Virginia Republicans Should Follow Trump's Advice: MineralMan Oct 2021 #7

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FarPoint

(12,209 posts)
6. Seems to me.....
Mon Oct 18, 2021, 01:59 PM
Oct 2021

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)
7. Virginia Republicans Should Follow Trump's Advice:
Mon Oct 18, 2021, 02:57 PM
Oct 2021

Don't vote! The election is rigged. Just stay home in protest!

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