Headline: The Downballot, 4/28/2025
Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin called conservative radio host John Reid on Friday to urge him to drop out of the race to serve as Virginia's next lieutenant governor, a story first reported by The Richmonder's Graham Moomaw.
Reid, the only Republican running in June's primary, responded with a statement claiming that he'd been the "target for malicious and salacious lies." In a video released on Sunday, Reid said he was "not going anywhere" and accused "insiders in Virginia politics" of staging "a coup against a gay man whom they didn't want to be their nominee but didn’t have the guts to run against."
Youngkin's concerns, says Moomaw, stem from sexually explicit online posts shared by an account allegedly tied to Reid. The account in question, on the site Tumblr, had the handle "JRdeaux," which matches the username on Reid's Instagram page. Reid, however, says the Tumblr account is not his.
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