Neither Lt. Gov. candidate John Reid nor Gov. Glenn Youngkin appears prepared to back down from the budding fight that fractured the statewide Republican party. As initially reported by The Richmonder,

As John Reid, the Republican nominee for the Va. lieutenant governor’s race, has been asked to step aside amid controversy, experts weigh on the party’s future.

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin is asking his party’s candidate vying to be Virginia’s next lieutenant governor to step aside.