Youngkin Dodges On Launching Bid For President

November 5, 2023 Politics, Republicans

ABC News has the transcript:

STEPHANOPOULOS: You got a lot of Republicans around the country want you to run for president, as you know. You just saw the poll we had that showed both Joe Biden and Donald Trump unpopular. Now, I know you say you’re not going to address this until after the Tuesday election, but I just want to know, have you — have you ruled out running for president in 2024 or is that still a possibility?

YOUNGKIN: Well, George, I’m a homegrown Virginian who 40 years ago was washing dishes and taking out trash, and to even have my name tossed around in this is incredibly humbling.

I’m excited about the fact that people are, are encouraged by what’s happening in Virginia where common-sense policies really are working, working to generate job growth, and we have a huge tax rebate that has gone out we’ve had $5 billion of tax relief. People like this.

And so, I continue to be very focused on Virginia. I’ve said over and over again., I’ve been at the Rockingham County Fair, not the Iowa State Fair. I’m campaigning across Virginia and focused on Virginia, not in New Hampshire, not in South Carolina, and not in Nevada. I’m focused on Virginia, and that’s where my attention will continue to be.

STEPHANOPOULOS: That’s about the — good answer, I was expecting. It wasn’t exactly a no, but thank you for addressing the question. Let me just finally ask you the question that I asked Steve Scalise, he couldn’t answer yes or no on whether the 2020 election was stolen. Can you?

YOUNGKIN: Well, I’ve consistently said that Joe Biden was legitimately elected president. He’s sleeping in the White House. I wish he weren’t. In all candor, the chaos that we see around the world and at home is his projected weakness. International foreign policy has resulted in multiple spots of chaos from Israel to Ukraine to China is his foreign policy weakness again, has resulted in bad adversaries being funded like Iran.

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