At a recent Virginia rally, Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin talked up his plans to boost the economy and fight crime, and said nothing at all about false claims that Democratic President Joe Biden's election victory was the result of fraud.
But some in the crowd heard the message all the same, moments before the former private equity executive's speech, when Republican state Senator Amanda Chase told Youngkin supporters - offstage and without a microphone - that she was on guard against a repeat of election cheating.
But Youngkin also does not want to alienate the independent voters who disapprove of Trump and his role in sparking the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol intended to overturn his election defeat. At his rally on Friday, held under a covered horse-riding arena in Chesterfield, south of the state capital, Richmond, Youngkin told the crowd: "We need election observers. Please volunteer to be election observers."
Virginia shifted Democratic over the past decade, thanks in part to population growth in its liberal-leaning suburbs of Washington.
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