The Republican governor posted a message Wednesday night on social media site X calling the former president the best choice for “strong leadership.”
“Voters in the Commonwealth and across the country have spoken loudly for President Donald J. Trump and I endorse him for President of the United States,” Youngkin posted. Trump carried Virginia’s Republican primary vote on Super Tuesday, bestingwebsite Wednesday night, Trump thanked Youngkin for the endorsement. “I look forward to working with this fantastic Governor to WIN THE GREAT STATE OF VIRGINIA ON NOVEMBER 5th,” he added.
After flirting last year with his own 2024 presidential bid, Youngkin seemed to offer Republicans a new path that played to the MAGA base but steered away from Trump’s rough edges. In 2022, Trump claimed Youngkin couldn’t have won without him and suggested the governor’s name sounded Chinese. But Youngkin did not gain traction when he traveled the country in 2022 to help Republican gubernatorial candidates in various states, including some who echoed Trump’s false claim that Democrats stole the 2020 election. Last year, he failed to help the GOP win majorities in the Virginia legislature, and that seemed to cool his own national ambitions.
Democrats reacted quickly. Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney, who along with Rep. Abigail Spanberger announced plans to run for the Democratic nomination for governor next year, immediatelycalling Youngkin’s endorsement “a slap in the face to millions of Virginians. Our Commonwealth rejected Trump’s bigotry in 2016 and 2020 — and will do it again in November.”House Speaker Don L. Scott Jr. said in an interview that he was not surprised by the endorsement.
Scott added that he doesn’t see Youngkin’s position affecting sensitive negotiations in the General Assembly over the state budget or other legislation. “It does not change anything in our calculation of how we try to move the commonwealth of Virginia forward together. We know Republicans have to do this,” he said.
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