The Fox News Decision Desk now called it folks, and they have projected that Republican Glenn Youngkin will win the Gubernatorial race in Virginia, defeating former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe in a contest that was once was widely expected to go to the Democrat. Why you ask? Because normally Virginia is a blue stranglehold for years, and this is part of the BIG red Tsunami coming in the mid terms, and this is a big message to the progressive, and the left… WE’RE Coming for you! Their time is done. They can’t keep up their bullshit and lies.
Youngkin ran a disciplined and honest campaign, focusing on taxes, crime, and holding public schools accountable to parents, while McAuliffe repeatedly tried to link Youngkin to former President Trump. While yes Youngkin had Trump backing him look who showed up for McAuliffe “Joe Biden, Barry Sotero or Barrack Hussain Obama, “Phony” Kamala Harris, Stacey “The GAP” Abrams, and other so called big wigs in the left. Also the whole Tiki Torches b/s backfired on them thanks to The Lincoln Project taking credit for it, and outing themselves like the true LIBTARDS they all are.
“Alrighty Virginia, we won this thing,” Youngkin told supporters in his victory speech a little after 1 AM Wednesday. And vowed that “together, we will change the trajectory of this commonwealth.” Two months ago, McAuliffe held a mid-single-digit lead in a state that Biden won by 10 points over then-President Trump just a year ago, but Youngkin erased the former governor’s advantage in the closing stretch of the campaign.
We are also watching results in New Jersey. That contest, between Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy and Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli, has also tightened in the last month. With Virginia’s gubernatorial race considered a key bellwether ahead of next year’s midterm elections, Youngkin’s victory in a state where Republicans hadn’t won statewide in a dozen years will only increase Democratic anxieties as they try to defend their razor-thin House and Senate majorities in 2022.
Youngkin, a first-time candidate and former private equity CEO, won thanks to a wave of Republican voter enthusiasm, and by tapping into the anger of parents over decisions by their local school boards. “We’re going to embrace our parents, not ignore them,” he emphasized in his victory speech. And he touted that “a campaign that came from nowhere…turned into a movement.”
Youngkin made major gains among suburban voters, who fueled the 2018 blue wave that helped the Democrats win back the House and Biden’s presidential victory over Trump one year ago. McAuliffe underperformed Biden in Virginia’s suburbs. Most glaring was Northern Virginia’s Loudoun County, which Biden carried by 25 points a year ago, but McAuliffe won by just over 10 points.
“I’ve just felt this great surge of momentum for the last six to eight weeks,” Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin emphasized at a polling station in Chantilly, Virginia early on Election Day. The former governor had been battling complacency among Democratic voters who may be demoralized by Biden’s flagging poll numbers and frustrated with the current lack of progress by the president and congressional Democrats on their social spending and human infrastructure measure and other top priorities.
Virginia and New Jersey are the only two states to hold gubernatorial races in the year after a presidential election, guaranteeing they both grab outsized attention. And both states have a tradition of voting against the gubernatorial nominee of the party that won the White House the previous year while neither the president nor the former president is on the ballot, Biden and Trump have been front and center in the race.
A Democratic defeat in Virginia in the first major election during Biden’s tenure in the White House serves as a major political setback for a president who’s already endured a very rocky late summer and autumn. “Youngkin’s entire campaign has been a full embrace of Donald Trump’s dangerous extremism: divisive culture wars, racist dog whistles and bigotry,” McAuliffe charged on Monday. The strategy was simple during his years in the White House Trump was a lightning rod that ignited Democratic turnout.
But after 10 months of Biden now the country knows who the real enemy of the state is, and it wasn’t Trump, and like Trump said Biden would destroy the country if elected and now once again Trump has been proven correct as just look at inflation, taxes, and mandates which are meant to hurt our nation. And it’s now clear who’s in the PUTIN POCKET! It’s not Trump but Biden. Afterall we had a great economy, and a whole lot of good things happening before the Obama/Biden/Fauci + Wuhan lab released virus. More dead under BIDEN then Trump, and the masks, and Jab mandates do not hold well for the DemocRATS as slowly they turn on their own, and they will continue to fall one by one. This is a great win for Virginia and America… McAuliffe’s was hoping for a repeat performance in a state where polls indicate the former president remains very unpopular with Democrats and independent voters. But in the end, it wasn’t successful. And I doubt the independent voters they polled were very honest in the end of the day ORANGE man was right, and it’s BIDEN who is sold out to China’s CCP, and Russia’s Putin.
While careful not to turn off Trump’s base of voters, Youngkin’s kept the former president at an arm’s length during the general election campaign and didn’t take part in a Trump tele-rally on the candidate’s behalf on Election Eve. As Youngkin caught up with McAuliffe in public opinion polling this autumn, helping to fuel his surge was the combustible issue of education and schools. But since the McAuliffe speech a few nights ago when Biden was on stage we heard a lot of “WE LOVE TRUMP” yells in the crowd.
“I’m on the side of the parents and children and teaches, and I think this has become the big issue in this race,” Youngkin stressed Tuesday on Fox News “America’s Newsroom.” Public school education has traditionally been a leading issue in gubernatorial contests across the country. But amid a year and a half of frustration over school closures and mask mandates due to the coronavirus pandemic and the push by conservatives nationwide to target race-focused curriculum, including this year’s well-publicized battles in Loudoun County over critical race theory – which isn’t taught in the state’s public schools – Republicans now see education and parents’ rights as a winning issue to try and recapture suburban voters who fled the GOP during Trump’s White House tenure.
An unforced error by McAuliffe further fueled the GOP fire, as Republicans spotlighted a clip from the second and final debate between the two candidates where the former governor said “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” Moron! These kids are the kids of the same people who will vote for you so going against the people who will be the ones to vote for you is not in your best interest. But the left isn’t exactly the smartest of the bunch now are they?
In the weeks after the clip went viral, polls in Virginia showed education surging to become the second most pressing issue on the minds of voters. And the same surveys indicated that McAuliffe, who kicked off his gubernatorial campaign at a public school in Richmond as he spotlighted his education proposals, had lost his advantage on the issue.
Thanks to Youngkin’s win, expect his push to stand up for parents to be a blueprint for the GOP as the party aims to win back both houses of Congress in next year’s midterms. “I think it’s clearly going to be a big issue,” Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), told Fox News last week.
While it’s dangerous to read too much into the results in Virginia, the state has a history of voting against the gubernatorial nominee of the party that captured the White House the preceding year. McAuliffe broke that streak in 2013, when he won his first term as governor the year after Obama was reelected as president. Virginia state law prevents governors from serving consecutive terms.
McAuliffe’s 2013 gubernatorial victory didn’t foreshadow the GOP’s red wave in the 2014 midterms, when they recaptured the Senate. But former Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell’s 2009 victory in Virginia a year after Obama captured the White House did precede the GOP tidal wave of 2010, when the party retook the House. And Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s victory in 2017 a year after Trump won the presidency, teed up the Democrats’ blue wave in the 2018 midterms, when they convincingly won back the House majority.
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