mcauliffe, has been out on the trail highlighting his republican opponent s work in furthering trump s agenda. take for example the recent rally for youngkin by none other than steve bannon who was just held in contempt of congress for obstructing the january 6 investigation with potential criminal charges coming his way from doj. it was an event that opened with a pledge of allegiance to a flag that was present at the insurrection, an event that featured a barrage of falsehoods about the 2020 election result and even includes a phone call from the disgraced ex-president himself. youngkin would distance himself from the event and would call the pledge, quote, weird and wrong. described him as walking a trump tight rope and keeping the president partly at arm s length, but the ties on the 2020 election are hardly foreign to youngkin. he made stolen election claims a center piece of his early campaign, failing to ever publicly acknowledge that joe biden won the election until a