For months, some of the Republican Party’s top donors have dreamed of a dramatic late entrance into the presidential race by Gov.
Glenn Youngkin of Virginia, envisioning an improbable scenario in which the fleece-vested former financier rips control of the party away from Donald J. Trump.
Mr. Youngkin had been viewed by some Republicans as the key to unlocking their political problems in the suburbs.
Mr. Youngkin’s blueprint, the thinking went, could help the Republican Party halt a series of stinging defeats since the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Mr. Youngkin encouraged his party to lean into the fight, spending heavily on a television ad that explained the Republican plan to ban abortion in Virginia after 15 weeks of pregnancy with exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the woman.
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