Glenn Youngkin hits campaign trail for Brian Kemp and Trump-backed GOP candidates
CBSN
Glenn Youngkin may be the governor of Virginia, but like many other ambitious Republicans, he is spending time this election season outside his home state helping out fellow GOP candidates as he mulls a potential 2024 presidential bid.
Youngkin is set to headline a rally for Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp on Sept. 27, aides to the Virginia governor tell CBS News. The event will be held in Alpharetta, Ga., a city in the northern, Republican-heavy reaches of metro Atlanta.
The scheduled stop in Georgia comes a few weeks before he's expected to campaign for Kari Lake, the Arizona GOP gubernatorial nominee. By appearing this fall alongside Lake – who openly embraces former president Donald Trump's false theories about the 2020 presidential election results – and Kemp, who famously defied the former president and defeated a Trump-backed primary challenger in June, Youngkin is once again trying to bridge his party's disparate factions – and may end up being one of the few GOP officials to do so this year.
