Posted on 05/26/2021 4:58:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
Americans may not have to wait until 2022 to sense the potential for Republicans to move the nation back in a conservative direction.
The race for governor in Virginia, one of just two major elections taking place this year, could be a barometer of national sentiment.
Republicans have just nominated a dream-team ticket, combining talent and achievement with all the diversity demands of today's political marketplace.
The nominee is investor/businessman Glenn Youngkin, who campaigned for his party's nomination as a "conservative, Christian outsider." Youngkin is a wealthy man who was co-CEO of the highly respected investment firm The Carlyle Group.
On the ticket for lieutenant governor is former Marine Winsome Sears, a conservative black woman and immigrant from Jamaica.
Running for attorney general is Jason S. Miyares, a member of the state legislature and son of a Cuban immigrant.
This conservative ticket -- pro-Second Amendment gun rights, pro-family, pro-life, promoting growth through lower taxes and less regulation -- advertises the truth those on the left wish to muzzle: that the conservative values that built America are not "white values" but universally true American values.
The state of Virginia is an appropriate laboratory for this test because Virginia is a poster child for the maladies of our nation.
Virginia was for years a solid red state. Virginians voted for Republicans in every presidential election from 1952 through 2004, with the exception of 1964. It has picked Democrats in every election since -- 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020
What's happening?
The population growth of the state has been in northern Virginia, which is basically a suburb of Washington, D.C. From 2010 to 2019, according to University of Virginia research, northern Virginia accounted for 66.5% of the state's population growth.
Per Washington Post reporting of a 2017 study from Old Dominion University: "Virginia's fortunes are more tied to the federal budget than those of perhaps any other state. Almost 30 percent of Virginia's gross domestic product -- its total output of goods and services -- is directly related to federal spending."
Given that government is increasingly the meal ticket for northern Virginians, it should be no surprise that Democrats -- the party of big government -- are increasingly becoming the party of Virginia.
In 2020, Joe Biden won 51.3 percent of the vote nationwide, and Donald Trump won 46.8 percent. In Virginia, Biden got 54.1 percent and Trump 44 percent.
Even among white voters nationwide, Biden got 41 percent and Trump 58 percent. But in Virginia, Biden won 45 percent of white voters and Trump won 53 percent.
In northern Virginia's Fairfax County, with a median household income of $124,831, 70.4 percent of the vote went for Biden and 28.2 percent for Trump.
As more Virginians benefit from the largesse of profligate government, they increasingly turn to Democrats, who promote this government meal ticket while advancing policies that are destroying our country.
The inflation that many have been worried about, due to excessive government spending producing record deficits and debt, is beginning to show itself in the marketplace.
Recent Census Bureau reports showing historically low birth rates mean there is an aging population -- a direct result of the collapse of family and an increase in pro-abortion attitudes and policies.
What is happening in Virginia points to the same trend nationally: more citizens getting government money and thus getting behind policies that are destroying our country.
Leadership can turn things around.
This dream-team Republican ticket in Virginia must run on principles and patriotism and against the moral and fiscal profligacy that is taking us down the path to moral and fiscal bankruptcy.
Virginia's Hispanic population has grown substantially in recent years and is now an electoral force. Hispanics are the nation's youngest demographic. They should be particularly sensitive to policies that jeopardize our future.
Sanctity of life, sanctity of family, and sanctity of ownership and markets is what Virginia and America needs for a future. For this, America needs Republicans.
“… it should be no surprise that Democrats — the party of big government — are increasingly becoming the party of Virginia.”
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“Becoming?” Oh, they most assuredly already are.
Sorry Star...that’s not true! I have watched the dimwits steal the last 3 major elections here in VA...in real time. All you have to do is stay up to about 11:20 on election night and wait for the 300,000 some odd votes to drop from Fairfax county/DC. They screwed up last time and declared Biden the winner even before the votes were being counted.
Virginia once dubbed The Communist State for outlawing radar detectors continues to deserve that appellation
Northam is such a POS it’s unbelievable.
I’m in VA as well.. it’s less about stealing than a demographic shift… the pukes from the NE have infested this once-great Commonwealth with government-dependent parasites for the past two decades, and they’ve colonized the northern counties. Those same counties tend to report late in the evening, so those early leads by GOPers are illusory.
Hopefully that will change for your state.
The Democrats control America by controlling the cities where there will never be fair elections.
Do not say “The North East” The Virginia problem is the cities
Cities have always been a problem, but the greater issue is largely the infiltration in the northern counties by democrats from NE states who live in NoVA, working for federal government agencies.
Sorry for the confusion between the North /East and North East Virginia.
However, to the point, does not the Democrat controlled city run from DC all the way down to the North Carolina line?
VA is overloaded with bureaucrats who feast at the trough. Tough to see it turning around is this election year even with a dream ticket going against a bum like Terry McAwful. Sad to say.
No ones watching elections, are they? Least of all Virginia. Used to be red. Then the beast and her idiot husband and gang put mccauliffe in there and it was all over
....we lived in the beautiful Commonwealth of Virginia for almost 45 years.....I still miss its wonderful geography and its inherent beauty....but....we now live in Texas...Virginia just became way too liberal over the past decade or so...and the Dems are going to nominate Terry McCaulife for governor again...???!!! The Virginia that we knew and loved is gone....
Terry McAwful was supposed to jump from Virginia governor to President of the United States.
He failed but can try again apparently
In 2020 there was massive voter fraud in VA. No doubt this will be the case in this election too.
So no we will not have a Republican as Governor in VA.
Those same counties tend to report late in the evening, so those early leads by GOPers are illusory.
It’s illusory to think that they are reporting late for any other reason than knowing how MUCH to steal. Massive Democratic stealing has been going on for decades. Any honest historian will admit that JFK did not win the Presidency. He won off the backs of dead people in Chicago and a few Texas cities. Chicago’s most popular saying on election day is, “Vote Early and Often.”
The excuse that they are late because they are big is a lie! Florida fired the Dade County Supervisor of Elections and they magically were able to count their votes three times faster this election. Funny huh?
Democrats cheat.
And what did Republican-controlled legislatures do? They refused to enforce voter ID and handed the Steal to Biden. Vote out every RINO who must face a primary in 2022 and replace them with MAGA patriots. Do this every 2 years, and we may just hang on to enough states to save America.
Most definitely, with except of a precious few. Virginia Beach is still nominally GOP.
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