YoungkinWatch: Virginia Repubs Reportedly Sought to Punish Governor’s House Ally over GOP Losses

Tom Pappert, The Star News Network

Republicans in the Virginia House of Delegates reportedly sought to strip the leadership

position of Speaker Todd Gilbert (R-Shenandowoah) on Sunday for his failure to caution Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) against fiercely campaigning on abortion, and for demanding Virginia legislators appear at political events they reportedly said were part of a last minute presidential bid for the governor. “We literally ran on one of the third rails of politics,” (15-week abortion ban) one of the delegates reportedly told the Post.