Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, who is married to Justice Clarence Thomas and who remains under scrutiny for urging a top Trump administration official to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has weighed in on a crowded GOP primary in Virginia’s 7th District, endorsing Prince William Board Supervisor Yesli Vega (R).
Thomas, a conservative activist who has injected funding and influence into GOP politics for years, rallied supporters of former president Donald Trump to back Vega in her bid to challenge Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) in a message Vega posted Monday night.
“Yesli Vega is an American First, movement conservative who I am happy to endorse in her campaign for Congress. For Republicans, she’s the Anti-AOC and the only candidate who can take the fight directly to the AOC backed candidate in this race, Abigail Spanberger," Thomas said in a statement, referring to liberal Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), whose political action committee has not donated to Spanberger’s campaign and who has not endorsed Spanberger. “I strongly encourage Trump supporters and movement conservatives across the Seventh and across the country to rally behind her campaign.”
Thomas’s decision to endorse Vega now is notable both because her involvement in pushing to delegitimize President Biden’s 2020 win recently emerged during the House committee investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, and, politically, because Virginia’s 7th is a competitive swing district that Trump...
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