Former President Donald Trump jumped right back into this year’s most competitive gubernatorial race again on Monday, warning that rejecting his “Make America Great Again” agenda is a political loser and that Virginia Republicans must “watch the vote counters.”
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Trump, who endorsed Glenn Youngkin when he won the Virginia Republican gubernatorial nomination back in May, slammed Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe late last week, calling the former Virginia governor a “political hack” who previously accepted large campaign contributions from him.
The Youngkin campaign dropped an ad Monday morning echoing Trump’s statement, referencing his donations to McAuliffe’s first campaign for office.
Trump, who supported McAuliffe’s first run for office, added that the Democrat only “said only great things and would do whatever I wanted, until I ran for office.”
In his latest statement on Monday, Trump referenced former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie’s failed run against Democrat Ralph Northam 2017.
“Four years ago, a man named Ed Gillespie ran for Governor of Virginia without ’embracing’ MAGA, or the America First movement. He tried to skirt the issue by wanting my endorsement, yet walking on both sides of the fence,” Trump said.
He continued, “The Trump base is very large in Virginia, they understood his game, and they didn’t come out for Gillespie, nor did I do anything to help or hurt. He got creamed!”
The former president in his statement then lauded Youngkin, saying, “Now a great candidate, Glenn Youngkin, is running against political hack and unpopular former Governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe.”
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Trump added, “Glenn has a very good chance of winning—but watch the ‘vote counters’ in Virginia. As the 2020 Presidential Election Scam has proven, they can be far more important than the candidate!”
McAuliffe, in a tweet, responded to Trump, calling him a “failed and unpopular one-term president.”
“Donald Trump, a failed and unpopular one-term President, just can’t accept the fact that the people of Virginia rejected him TWICE,” he said. “So he’s back to his 2020 election LIES. Donald, are you brave enough to come to Virginia to campaign for Glenn? Third time’s a charm,” referencing Trump’s loss of Virginia to Hillary Clinton in 2016 and President Joe Biden in 2020.
