[csusbpeace] Glenn Youngkin Supporters Pledge Allegiance to Insurrection Flag
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Republicans at Rally Trump Called Into Pledge Allegiance to Flag Carried on
January 6th
The former president endorsed Glenn Youngkin for governor at the “Take Back
Virginia” rally, and continued to allege without evidence that the 2020
election was stolen
October 14, 2021
Glenn Youngkin, Republican gubernatorial candidate for Virginia, speaks
during a campaign event in Fairfax, Virginia, on Monday, August 30th, 2021.
Bloomberg via Getty Images
The insurrection <https://www.rollingstone.com/t/insurrection/> was good,
actually.
This was the message sent last night at a high-profile rally for Virginia
<https://www.rollingstone.com/t/virginia/> gubernatorial candidate Glenn
Youngkin <https://www.rollingstone.com/t/glenn-youngkin/>, where attendees
stood up and said the Pledge of Allegiance to a flag that was carried during
what was described as “the peaceful rally with Donald J. Trump on January 6th
<https://www.rollingstone.com/t/january-6th/>.”
Youngkin’s campaign didn’t immediately to a request for comment from Rolling
Stone as to whether he supports the flag’s presence during the pledge.
Youngkin was not present at the “Take Back Virginia” rally, but it was
headlined by former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, who cited the close race
between Youngkin and his Democratic opponent, Terry McAufflife, to argue that
the state’s 2020 election results were illegitimate. “He didn’t win by 10
points, OK?” Bannon said
<https://twitter.com/MelLeonor_/status/1448462976793649163> of Biden. “No
doubt about that.”
The rally also featured Trump himself, who called into the rally to freshen
up his endorsement of Youngkin. “Glenn Youngkin is a great gentleman,” the
former president said. “Really successful, he loves this state, we gotta get
him in.”
Trump continued to allege, once again, that the 2020 election was rigged
against him. “We won in 2016,” he said. “We won in 2020, the most corrupt
election in the history of our country, probably one of the most corrupt
anywhere. But we’re gonna win it again.”
The idea that the election was stolen was the theme of the night — from
pledging allegiance to a flag Trump supporters carried at the “Stop the
Steal” rally on January 6th, to the comments from Bannon and Trump, to the
presence of Mark Finchem, who is currently running for secretary of State of
Arizona on the strength his role in the state’s election audit, which cost
millions of dollars before turning up no evidence of significant fraud.
From Arizona, to Virginia, to Michigan, where Trump is trying to purge
lawmakers who have acknowledged Biden won the election
<https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-biglie-stopthesteal-2024-biden-1241492/>,
it’s been made abundantly clear that the guiding tenet of the Trump-led
Republican Party heading into 2022 is that democracy is bad, and that it must
be subverted by any means necessary in service of the former president
returning to power. They can’t say this out loud, so they instead continue to
push the baseless idea that the 2020 election was fraudulent.
“Donald Trump won,” Finchem said in Virginia on Wednesday, reportedly
<https://twitter.com/LVozzella/status/1448440297436979205> to a standing
ovation.
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