Virginia’s Youngkin Campaigns to Reelect Kemp in Georgia

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, joining his Georgia counterpart and fellow Republican Brian Kemp at a campaign rally outside Atlanta on Sept. 26, reminded the crowd that the Georgia election revolves around the same issues that drove his own upset victory last year.

But the two states’ respective experiences going into last year were very different, the Virginia Republican told about 400 people gathered at Town Green Fountain, a park in the picturesque downtown of Alpharetta, a suburb north of Atlanta.

And the reason for that, Youngkin said, was the bold course Kemp took during the pandemic.

“Let me just take y’all for a little walk back in time,” Youngkin said. “You see, no more than two years ago in Virginia, we were locked tight. We had eight years of a Democrat governor—eight years. We were locked down, shut down in the middle of the pandemic, and you didn’t have that because you had Brian Kemp.”

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (red vest) talks to a voter while stumping for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s reelection in Alpharetta, Ga. on Sept. 27, 2022. (Dan M. Berger/The Epoch Times)

“There were small businesses in Bristol, Virginia, that were closed. And we had businesses right across the street in Bristol, Tennessee, that were wide open. We saw small businesses shut day and night. You didn’t have that because you had Brian Kemp.”

“We saw crime going up in all our neighborhoods because we saw resources being taken away from law enforcement. You didn’t have that because you had Brian Kemp.”

“We saw children locked out of their schools that didn’t reopen until September 2021 full time. We were told the education our children were getting on a 12-inch screen was a quality education. You didn’t have that because you had Brian Kemp.”

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