Economic bully Glenn Youngkin has the might of the Office of Governor to push people around. Picking on a high school student is bad form.
Poor choice, Gov. Youngkin, especially given your campaign's response to your 17 year old son attempting to vote without any voter registration. Devin O'Malley defended that teen with:
"It's unfortunate that while Glenn attempts to unite the Commonwealth around his positive message of better schools, safer streets, a lower cost of living, and more jobs, his political opponents - mad that they suffered historic losses this year - are pitching opposition research on a 17-year old kid who honestly misunderstood Virginia election law and simply asked polling officials if he was eligible to vote; when informed he was not, he went to school."
Youngkin's campaign did just that, pitching opposition research on a 17 year old kid. Glenn's world is might makes right.
Update 2-8-22: Youngkin's spokesman called the kid they attacked on social media a Democrat Party operative. The Youngkin campaign tightly controlled messaging, according to Politico.
So if you have your own brand, like Glenn did — and [that's] hard; it helps to have about a half-billion dollars in the bank and be able to put about $20 million in the campaign and raise another $40 million so you can have your own brand in a very expensive media market, create your own culture, create your own kind of winning-team mentality, have a fleece vest and a hat for everybody who comes across the Potomac and wants to get on the campaign team and join a winning operation — that's all good. When you create that kind of culture, and that opportunity and that vision of what the state can be like, then endorsements don't matter as much anyway.
When we were creating our own brand for Glenn, it was not in the image of anyone else. You're a Youngkin Republican. Plant your guidepost, and go be your own guy.
Youngkin is his own greedy, power hungry guy. Why would someone of his stature need to apologize to a kid? To remove the log in his eye.
Update 2-9-22: Youngkin isn't alone in losing control over his messaging. In their rush to fluff up Tonald Drump's ego the RNC failed to follow basic procedures in approving the resolution that termed January 6th as legitimate political discourse. So incompetence was used to promote arrogance. Do they actually listen to themselves?
Update 2-13-22: After gutting the state's civil rights division Governor Youngkin mixed up two black female Senators. He did apologize for his error, blaming multi-tasking.
Update 3-10-23: Governor Youngkin ran over another Virginia teen at his Town Hall by not answering his question.
A transgender high school student’s question for Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), who has rolled back protections for trans students, got a dodge for the ages at a CNN town hall event on Thursday night.
