Huffington Post: “Glenn Youngkin, the Republican candidate in Virginia’s looming gubernatorial election, twice refused to shut down GOP voters’ wild conspiracy theories about former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss at a campaign event last week, even balking at the chance to correct a voter who posited that Trump could be reinstated to the presidency as soon as this month. ‘I don’t know the particulars about how that can happen, because what’s happening in the court system is moving slowly and it’s unclear. And we all know the courts move slowly,’ Youngkin said, in response to a question about whether Trump’s reinstatement could help Virginia Republicans claim seats they lost in elections the voter claimed had also been stolen.”

“There is no possible path for Trump’s reinstatement, and no evidence that any election was stolen in Virginia or anywhere else last year. Both federal and state courts and the Supreme Court have rejected numerous efforts to overturn election results. But instead of directly refuting the voter’s claim, which is based on another conspiracy Trump has apparently circulated, or others made during a question-and-answer session at the opening of a new campaign office in Fredericksburg, Virginia, last Thursday, Youngkin chose to promote the so-called ‘election integrity’ aspects of his platform, according to an audio recording obtained by HuffPost. ‘Sir, I wish I had a magic wand, because we’ve got these same rules going into 2021,’ Youngkin said in response to another voter who claimed to have knowledge of dead people casting ballots in last year’s elections, a favorite Trump conspiracy theory for which he has offered no proof. ‘And by the way, when I’m governor, we’ll be able to make some reforms.'”