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Glenn Youngkin has a double digit lead with 71% reported.
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2021-11-03 at 1:25 AM UTCGlenn Youngkin | Rep. | 1,249,276 | 54.5%
Terry McAuliffe | Dem. | 1,028,893 | 44.9%
Source: A.P. | 71% est. votes reported -
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2021-11-03 at 2:04 AM UTCThe author of this post has returned to nothingness
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2021-11-03 at 2:18 AM UTCFrom Far Left Buzzfeed about 1 hour ago.
Republican Glenn Youngkin is projected to win the Virginia gubernatorial race, deepening a panic among Democrats about their ability to hold control of Washington in next year’s midterms.
Youngkin, a first-time candidate, walloped McAuliffe in a state where Biden beat Trump by 10 points last year. The Virginia race, one of two off-year gubernatorial contests, is seen as a bellwether for the upcoming midterm elections. Virginia has been trending toward Democrats, and the last time a Republican won a statewide office was in 2009; it is still a competitive state that politicians and operatives have been looking to for a read on voters.
Youngkin ran a campaign that balanced keeping Trump close enough to excite his supporters, while also appealing to voters who might vote Republican if not for the former president. Despite not appearing at any event with Trump, he made a point of speaking to issues that the former president popularized, from election security to critical race theory.
In addition to calling into the state to stump on behalf of Youngkin on the eve of the election, Trump said in a statement Monday that the candidate has had his “Complete and Total Endorsement for many months!” Immediately after the race was called, he put out a statement taking credit for Youngkin's win, and congratulating him.
Though it was a statewide race, plenty of national influence poured in on both sides. McAuliffe had high-profile Democrats visit the state, from Biden to Barack Obama to Stacey Abrams, to get out the vote. His strategy relied heavily on tying Youngkin to Trump, and some Democratic voters in Virginia certainly saw this election as an ongoing referendum on the former president.
McAuliffe’s strategy also relied on keeping his own party’s president at an arm’s length, as Biden’s agenda has stalled in Washington due to two senators — Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin — holding up the passage of twin bills intended to address infrastructure and social spending. As Washington remained in a stalemate leading up to Election Day, Biden’s own popularity has sagged. Aware of the narrative that would emerge for the White House if the Democratic candidate lost, a Biden adviser downplayed the possibility of a McAuliffe win on Monday, pointing again to “historical headwinds” the Democratic candidate was facing. They resisted speculating on the meaning of Tuesday’s election for the midterms and beyond.
“You can’t take one race and extrapolate that to, like, what’s going to happen a year from now. There’s a lot that could change. There’s a lot that’s going to happen,” the Biden adviser said, adding that if the president's legislative agenda passes, that could change the dynamics for Democrats for future races.
“I don’t know that we can singularly say one way or the other, 'Virginia went this way, this is how 2022 is going to go,'” the Biden adviser said.
Biden spoke at a campaign rally for McAuliffe last week, the first direct appearance the president had made on the candidate’s behalf since the beginning of the race. The bulk of his remarks there focused on McAuliffe’s record and Youngkin’s ties to Trump, only briefly mentioning his own legislative agenda. McAuliffe, early last month, acknowledged that his campaign faced “headwinds from Washington.”
McAuliffe had always faced headwinds, given that he was up against the Virginia “curse.” In the last four decades, only one candidate whose party held the White House has been able to win the governor’s mansion in Virginia the following year. The exception to that trend was McAuliffe himself in 2013 — but that was hardly a reassurance for Democrats.
Republicans, for the Virginia election, turned to a massive effort to recruit poll watchers that would encourage election integrity and ensure their base participates in Tuesday’s election as Trump continues to sow doubt around the 2020 election results.
The commissioner of the Virginia Department of Elections confirmed to BuzzFeed News that there was “an uptick in interest for voters to serve as election officers at polling locations.” The Fairfax County Republican Committee chair, Steve Knotts, told BuzzFeed News his unit had trained upward of 300 people to serve as poll watchers and greeters. MAGA surrogates have also amplified the recruitment drive.
“What we're trying to do in Virginia is ensure a fair and honest election, and also it's critical that people — that our side, the Trump supporters, that Republicans have confidence again in the electoral system,” John Fredericks, a conservative radio host who has used his show to promote the recruitment drive in Virginia, told BuzzFeed News. -
2021-11-03 at 2:26 AM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker IT's close enough Bumstead
So you posting mathematically incorrect fake news on this website? You are a propaganda peddling pedophile who fears freedom's final form.
You're really just a dumb sad old irrelevant boomer who is upset the world is a scary and confusing place for him.
(You fuck livestock) -
2021-11-03 at 3:53 AM UTC
Originally posted by Sudo So you posting mathematically incorrect fake news on this website? You are a propaganda peddling pedophile who fears freedom's final form.
You're really just a dumb sad old irrelevant boomer who is upset the world is a scary and confusing place for him.
(You fuck livestock)
It don't scare or confuse me kid. I have had a handle on it for 40 plus years. I have everything I will ever need. The only thing I fear is your generations future. -
2021-11-03 at 4:02 AM UTClol that retard nazi stunt backfired hard
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2021-11-03 at 4:47 AM UTCdemorats are going to be taking it in the exhaust the next few yearsThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-11-03 at 4:56 AM UTCthe Lincoln Project is run by homosexual rapers
explains why stl had such a hardon for them -
2021-11-03 at 5:09 AM UTCSeriously though, doing a false flag and then admitting you did a false flag to benefit one candidate like a day before the election? Sure, you can chalk that up to political incompetence, but by the same token you don't have to be terribly clever to understand that's going to backfire for the candidate you're supposedly "supporting". If, say, you wanted Youngkin to win, that'd be a great way to help while still maintaining the thin veneer of your #resistance grift. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
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2021-11-03 at 5:11 AM UTCNobody wants to be associated with a man covered in poo. Covering yourself in poo and then allying yourself with people you don't want to win is actually 5D chess.
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2021-11-03 at 5:17 AM UTC
Originally posted by Meikai Seriously though, doing a false flag and then admitting you did a false flag to benefit one candidate like a day before the election? Sure, you can chalk that up to political incompetence, but by the same token you don't have to be terribly clever to understand that's going to backfire for the candidate you're supposedly "supporting". If, say, you wanted Youngkin to win, that'd be a great way to help while still maintaining the thin veneer of your #resistance grift. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
I think LP just took the fall for it anyway, the guys who participated were DNC staffers who nuked their social media accounts as soon as they were recognised -
2021-11-03 at 5:21 AM UTC
Originally posted by aldra I think LP just took the fall for it anyway, the guys who participated were DNC staffers who nuked their social media accounts as soon as they were recognised
Very possible, but it's also not like Lincoln Project wouldn't be in contact with dem staffers to organize something like this. Fighting for and alongside democrats to oppose republicans because they're the only "good" "republicans" is like... their whole deal. -
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2021-11-03 at 5:31 AM UTC
Originally posted by Sudo So you posting mathematically incorrect fake news on this website? You are a propaganda peddling pedophile who fears freedom's final form.
You're really just a dumb sad old irrelevant boomer who is upset the world is a scary and confusing place for him.
(You fuck livestock)
