Veterans enactment VoteVets has endorsed Democratic gubernatorial campaigner Terry McAuliffe aft his Virginia Republican hostile pledged allegiance to a emblem carried during the Capitol attack.
Vote Vets tweeted their endorsement:
Last night, GOP VA Gov campaigner Glenn Youngkin, said the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’ to a emblem that was carried during the insurrection connected Jan 6,
So we @votevets endorse @TerryMcAuliffe https://t.co/qKu1rVJmaf
— Jon Soltz (@jonsoltz) October 14, 2021
Republican candidates similar Youngkin aren’t adjacent trying to fell down a pretense of patriotism. They are openly courting and showing their enactment for home terrorists.
The Washington DC pundit people is spending their clip projecting nationalist meaning onto the Virginia gubernatorial race, but determination is thing much cardinal astatine stake. A ballot for Glenn Youngkin oregon immoderate different Republican successful 2021 oregon 2022 is simply a ballot against ideology and a ballot successful enactment of home terrorism.
Any campaigner who pledges allegiance to a emblem that was carried during the deadly onslaught connected the Capitol is not acceptable to beryllium politician and is declaring his menace to democracy.
The elections successful 2021 and 2022 aren’t the stand-off twelvemonth and midterm contests. Democracy is connected the ballot, and if voters don’t amusement up to support it, they volition suffer it.
Mr. Easley is the managing editor. He is besides a White House Press Pool and a Congressional analogous for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree successful Political Science. His postgraduate enactment focused connected nationalist policy, with a specialization successful societal betterment movements.
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