GOP Virginia Gov Welcomes Buzz About 2024 WH Bid

August 6, 2022 Politics, Republicans

The Richmond Dispatch reports:

On Wednesday evening, favor-seeking business people, lobbyists and activists, having stroked checks for four and five figures to Glenn Youngkin’s political action committee, streamed into the former Foundry of the Confederacy — for up-close-and-personal time with a newbie governor eyeing another job: the presidency. Youngkin, in a dark suit rather than trademark fleece vest, worked the VIP soiree.

Seven months into his nonrenewable, four-year term as governor, Youngkin — a Republican with no previous experience in politics and policy whose supposedly improbable victory in Democratic-trending Virginia has handicappers touting him for 2024 as Donald Trump without the baggage — happily feeds speculation he will be a candidate in the coming presidential cycle.

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