Posted on 11/03/2021 2:26:22 PM PDT by Morgana
Hours after Decision Desk called the Virginia gubernatorial race for Republican Glenn Youngkin in a come-from-behind upset Tuesday, CNN finally got around early Wednesday to admitting to the writing on the wall as the GOP swept the races for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and took the majority in the House of Delegates. CNN’s response? Declaring the country “incredibly divided” and suggesting Republicans couldn’t use the Youngkin model for more victories in other states.
Cutting away from Democratic New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s speech, CNN host Jake Tapper broke the news CNN viewers were dreading. “CNN is projecting that Republican Glenn Youngkin has been elected governor of Virginia, defeating Democrat Terry McAuliffe,” he announced.
“Youngkin pulling off a critical victory for his party in the highest-stakes election of the night. This is the first time Republicans have won an election for Virginia's top office in 12 years,” he noted before giving his grim analysis of the country:
Again, CNN projecting Glenn Youngkin has been elected governor of Virginia. And Dana Bash, this is the announcement that Joe Biden will not be happy to hear, and it also shows how incredibly divided this country is.
“Incredibly divided,” parroted chief political correspondent Dana Bash. “Joe Biden isn’t happy to hear because he and other very high profile Democrats went to try to help Terry McAuliffe.”
And after noting how Democrat Terry McAuliffe whiffed on trying to nationalize the race as Youngkin made it about local issues, Bash suggested Republicans would have a hard time using that method in other states:
But I think that what you saw in Glenn Youngkin is going to be, for sure, the playbook that Republicans are going to try to emulate going forward in 2022, and then also in 2024. The question is whether it is possible to emulate, because he is a very unique person. He's never been in public office before.
“And I saw him on the stump. He was really and is a very good candidate for what he was trying to do,” she conceded in a sort of backhanded compliment since they were portraying him as a racist.
CNN senior political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson agreed with Bash by asserting that other Republicans had too much baggage to pull off a victory like Youngkin: “Didn't sort of have the kind of baggage that a lot of Republicans serving as Trump was in office. He didn't have that baggage, because he's sort of a blank slate and new to politics.”
“Can Republicans find similar candidates in all of these races we're going to see in 2022,” she wondered in a skeptical tone.
They quickly moved on to discussing what Democrats could learn from their loss.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
CNN’s Election Night in America November 3, 2021 12:29:44 p.m. Eastern
JAKE TAPPER: We interrupt the governor of New Jersey to now make a major projection in the Virginia governor's race. CNN is projecting that Republican Glenn Youngkin has been elected governor of Virginia, defeating Democrat Terry McAuliffe.
Youngkin pulling off a critical victory for his party in the highest-stakes election of the night. This is the first time Republicans have won an election for Virginia's top office in 12 years.
DANA BASH: Incredibly divided. Joe Biden isn’t happy to hear because he and other very high profile Democrats went to try to help Terry McAuliffe.
Terry McAuliffe tried to nationalize this race by bringing in help from national Democrats, while Glenn Youngkin made it incredibly Virginia focused. He said this is about me and the people in Virginia. That gave him the added benefit of being able to say no, Mr. former president, Donald Trump, you can't come here. I don't want you to come here. So that strategy worked for him.
But I think that what you saw in Glenn Youngkin is going to be, for sure, the playbook that Republicans are going to try to emulate going forward in 2022, and then also in 2024. The question is whether it is possible to emulate, because he is a very unique person. He's never been in public office before.
And I saw him on the stump. He was really and is a very good candidate for what he was trying to do.
NIA MALIKA-HENDERSON: And didn’t – David [Chalian], you made this point earlier – Didn't sort of have the kind of baggage that a lot of Republicans serving as Trump was in office. He didn't have that baggage, because he's sort of a blank slate and new to politics. Can Republicans find similar candidates in all of these races we're going to see in 2022?
(…)
Before Obama and Big Mike took the stage, Virginia was primarily a Republican state. Barry Soetoro’s first act was to increase the size of the federal government along with all those liberal Yankees moving in to the surrounding suburbs.
The GOP need to shrink the size of government and then the left wing cockroaches will move out of Virginia.
“divided” = not Marxist enough
“racist” = not Marxist enough
“supremacist” = not Marxist enough
“transphobic”, “Islamophobic”, etc. = not Marxist enough
“climate denier” = not Marxist enough
“antidemocratic”, “insurrectionist” = not Marxist enough
“anti-vaxx” = not Marxist enough
So many words that really mean exactly the same thing.
CNN doesn’t want us to be all (D). They just want the (R)’s to have the (D)’s boots on our necks.
With Youngkin Win in VA, CNN Declares America ‘Incredibly Divided’
On the other hand this might be the beginning of the slow process of coming together.
We could be united by 2024 by which time Democrats will have lost both houses of Congress and the Presidency.
Unity is all in the eye of the beholder.
Leftists and Democrats are like Islamists in this respect.
If you adopt Islam and become a Muslim, or you agree to live under their laws as a non-Muslim second class citizen and pay the Jizya, then you are living in the Dar al Islam (House of Peace) and everyone is in harmony and everyone gets along.
Otherwise, you are living in the Dar al-harab (House of War) and you are fair game for every bit of abuse up to and including having your head sawed off your body with a dull sword as you breathe and scream until your windpipe is cut.
Just today, there was an opinion from the big Leftist Cheese that all Leftists prostrate themselves on the ground in fron of him, the execrable Noam Chomsky who said that unvaccinated people should be locked in their houses and starved.
No big deal. It isn’t even offensive to hear this from him, because This. Is. Who. They. Are.
Just run MAGA candidates. VA and MD politics are not like rest of the USA. Those states border on the DC swamp. MAGA is the winning ticket/
Democrat dog whistle for, 'we need a new Obama' to disguise our; collectivism, state controlled socialism, radical socialism, Bolshevism, neo-Marxism, Marxism, Leninism, Marx-Leninism, Trotskyism, Maoism, Xi-ism...
They have no clue what divided is yet. The retribution they’ll be receiving has just begun.
+1
Youngkin ran a brilliant campaign.
I heard it described on a radio show today that he ran a "Goldilocks campaign" as in "Trumpy, but not too Trumpy."
He retained Trump's MAGA base, brought home some #NeverTrumpers from the 'burbs and flipped a lot of swing voters who went for Biden in 2020. And he had an army of poll-watchers looking out for shenanigans.
That's how you do it.
Dem/Media definition of "division": when someone says no to us.
It only seems that way from inside the protective prophylactic.
its pretty much 50/50
but where we all are is way different
most of them are in big urban cities
most of us are outside those areas
when you look at the us by county breakdowns and how they trend
“Very unique person, never held public office before”
Hey, just like Trump!
Damn, we’re divided again. What a shame because Joe Crapinpants had SO united us for ten months. I don’t ever remember such a kumbaya ten months in all of my 70 years.
LOL. Divided? Not at all. Take away the fraud and Trump would still be POTUS.
Meet Winsome Sears, Virginia’s new Lieutenant Governor.
She is a black woman, who immigrated from Jamaica, served in the Marines, has a Masters degree, ran a women’s homeless shelter, raised 3 kids— and now she has made history.
i went searching for who ran youngkin’s campaign. didnt have much luck. anyone?
Bwahahahaha!
CNN actually means... “Assimilating all Americans into the Donkey collective has progressed slower than expected due to the growing resistance among the rebel infidels that have managed to elude the states programming efforts. The efforts to peaceably round up these deplorables through fear, intimidation, coercion and propaganda have fallen short and more aggressive means are necessary to meet our compliance goals. Compliance is mandatory and further resistance will be met with threats to family, job, bank account seizure, IRS audits and blunt force if called for.”
Fascist progressives are a peaceful ideology... all must submit to the will of the Donkey so that lives can be spared and peace under the Donkey can be a utopia for everyone.
but if mcawful had won....we’re somehow united??
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