GOP Nominee Glenn Youngkin Blames White Supremacists for Virginia’s Crime Increase in New Campaign Ad

GOP nominee for Governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin appears to be blaming white supremacists for the Commonwealth’s rising rates of crime, releasing a new campaign ad crediting the type of “hatred” and “evil” displayed by condemned mass shooter Dylann Roof with Virginia’s soaring annual number of murders under Democrat leadership.

The Youngkin campaign ad, titled “A New Direction,” takes a softer tone on law and order, casting Youngkin as a “compassionate leader” as described by Jarrat resident Rose Simmons, whose father was killed by mass shooter Dylann Roof at the Emmanuel Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC. The ad has drawn the ire of grassroots conservatives around Virginia and online, many of whom accuse Youngkin of employing left-wing hysteria tactics surrounding white supremacists in an effort to virtue signal to voters who wouldn’t ordinarily support a Republican candidate.