If anyone is interested. I finally got my PayPal account to link with Google pay. From what I observed it appears the PayPal app has an issue handling the final verification process. What I finally did was start over the process without being logged into the PayPal app and did the process with the Google pay app. When it started the verification process it opened a browser window instead of the PayPal app. I was then prompted to contact PayPal for their verification and all went through in a few seconds. Reopened Google pay app with PayPal rep on the phone and it my PayPal account showed linked and is accessible through Google pay now. A side note: the image in the link in my first post shows the verification page. In that window you can remove the PayPal virtual account number and start over fresh. Which what I did. Hopefully this will help someone down the line.
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