Lincoln Project members pose as white supremacists at Virginia GOP event

Five members carried tiki torches at a campaign stop for Glenn Youngkin, the Republican candidate for Virginia governor

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The Lincoln Project has confirmed it was behind a political stunt in which five members posed as white supremacists carrying tiki torches at a campaign stop for Glenn Youngkin, the Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, in Charlottesville ahead of election day next week.

Members of the anti-Trump Republican group stood in front of Youngkin's campaign bus on Friday wearing white shirts, khaki pants and sunglasses.