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.”…