{"id":1154352,"date":"2023-07-26T05:57:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T05:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=289813"},"modified":"2023-07-26T05:57:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T05:57:06","slug":"virginia-republican-governor-glenn-youngkin-a-stealth-presidential-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/07\/26\/virginia-republican-governor-glenn-youngkin-a-stealth-presidential-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin, a Stealth Presidential Candidate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Youngkin plays a delicate balancing act with Trump and his supporters. He accepted Trump\u2019s endorsement for the governorship but did not invite Trump to his campaigns. Youngkin sucked-up to Trump by criticizing the FBI raid of Trump's Mar-a-Lago property in search of illegally removed classified documents, calling it \"a stunning move by the DOJ and FBI\u201d. Youngkin also refuses to say whether Trump should cease pushing the 2020 election lie, though he also accepts with some wavering here and there that Joe Biden won the presidency legitimately. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/07\/26\/virginia-republican-governor-glenn-youngkin-a-stealth-presidential-candidate\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/07\/26\/virginia-republican-governor-glenn-youngkin-a-stealth-presidential-candidate\/\">Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin, a Stealth Presidential Candidate?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/07\/26\/virginia-republican-governor-glenn-youngkin-a-stealth-presidential-candidate\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youngkin plays a delicate balancing act with Trump and his supporters. He accepted Trump\u2019s endorsement for the governorship but did not invite Trump to his campaigns. Youngkin sucked-up to Trump by criticizing the FBI raid of Trump&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago propert&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154353,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154352\/revisions\/1154353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}