The Billboard Reads: “Glenn Youngkin to John Reid: ‘STEP DOWN.’ John Reid to Team Youngkin ‘CEASE AND DESIST from publishing lies.’”
VIRGINIA – Today as Winsome Earle-Sears campaigns with the entire statewide GOP ticket in Vienna, a mobile billboard truck highlighting the chaos and infighting within the Virginia GOP is circling the event and driving around Northern Virginia.
The billboard reads: “Glenn Youngkin to John Reid: ‘STEP DOWN.’ John Reid to Team Youngkin ‘CEASE AND DESIST from publishing lies.’”
Photos and b-roll are available for media use here.
Read more about the GOP ticket chaos and infighting:
Following John Reid becoming the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor, Winsome Earle-Sears refused to speak to Reid for 8 weeks.
- Glenn Youngkin’s Spirit of Virginia PAC said in a written statement: “The Governor was made aware late Thursday of the disturbing online content. Friday morning, in a call with Mr. Reid, the Governor asked him to step down as the Lt. Governor nominee.”
- Youngkin defended his actions to reporters when asked about his demands that Reid step down saying that “explicit social media content like this is a distraction.”
On April 28, John Reid sent a cease-and-desist to Youngkin’s team citing their “reckless disregard for the truth” and conversations where Youngkin’s team told Reid “getting out of the race is the only way it stops.”
- The letter also demanded “you must cease and desist from publishing lies.”
- In a video posted to social media Reid said, “Representatives of my campaign have been told by the leader of Governor Youngkin’s political organization that the attacks on me will continue unless I drop out of the race for lieutenant governor.”
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