Glenn Youngkin said he regretted a post to his campaign's Twitter account over the weekend that lashed out at a 17-year-old high school student. The Virginia governor said the tweet was “unauthorized.”
“I regret that this happened and it shouldn’t have,” Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said of the post from the campaign account. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesVirginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Monday said he regretted a post to his campaign's Twitter account over the weekend that lashed out at a 17-year-old high school student.
The Republican governor, sworn into office just over three weeks ago, stopped short of apologizing for the exchange. “On Saturday night, an unauthorized tweet came from a campaign account. I regret that this happened and it shouldn’t have,” Youngkin tweeted Monday morning from his personal Twitter account. “I have addressed it with my team. We must continue to work to bring Virginians together. There is so much more that unites us than divides us.”
The original tweet, sent from the official Team Youngkin campaign account, attacked Ethan Lynne — a high school senior involved with Virginia Teen Democrats — who tweeted a story from a Virginia-based NPR affiliate which detailed the resignation of a historian at the governor’s mansion.that an area of the mansion which once housed enslaved workers was being transformed by the Youngkin administration from an educational space into a family room.
“While he acknowledged the situation, Governor Youngkin did not apologize and did not condemn what happened over the weekend,” Lynne tweeted Monday. “I still hope he does, and that he will take time to recognize the culture of toxicity he has created within his first month of office.”
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