- People with tiki torches posed by Glenn Youngkin's bus in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Friday.
- The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump Republican group, later admitted to being behind the stunt.
- They said it was to remind Virginians of the 2017 white supremacist "Unite the Right" rally.
A group of people carrying tiki torches turned up to an event for Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Friday, posing in front of his tour bus.
Turns out, they were sent by the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump Republican group.
The tiki torches were a nod to the 2017 "Unite the Right rally" in Charlottesville, when white supremacists and neo-Nazis marched with tiki torches in hand, with some chanting "Jews will not replace us."
The stunt came the same week a civil trial began against the rally's organizers and days before Virginia's gubernatorial election on November 2.
Local NBC reporter Elizabeth Holmes shared a photo of the group on Twitter, reporting they said something that sounded like: "We're all in for Glenn."
—Elizabeth Holmes (@holmes_reports) October 29, 2021
