Posted on 11/03/2021 5:41:40 AM PDT by cotton1706
MCLEAN, Va. — The party faithful had been chatting amongst themselves for three hours, periodically craning their necks for a glimpse of the cable news playing on mute in the press pen, nervously refreshing their drinks at the cash bar, and quietly complaining about the lack of reliable wi-fi in the Hilton ballroom, when Terry McAuliffe finally arrived. He didn’t say much.
In a speech that barely lasted five minutes, the normally chatty politician thanked his supporters and his family and his staff before quickly leaving the stage. Notably, he did not concede. And, for the first time in a long time, the Democratic candidate for governor didn’t say a single word about Donald Trump.
McAuliffe’s strategy had been to tie his Republican opponent, Glenn Youngkin, to the former president so often that the race would become a replay of the 2020 election in a state Joe Biden carried by 10 percentage points. Instead, McAuliffe wound up turning his own race into a referendum on whether Democrats could win without Trump in the picture. Prior to Tuesday night, there was measured optimism that this gambit would work. “We are very hopeful,” Debbie and Thomas Siebert said of McAuliffe’s chances. Longtime friends of the candidate, Debbie Siebert and her husband, a former ambassador to Sweden, added early in the night that “we are realists too.”
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You mean Trump wasn’t running for Governor of Virginia? Based on the way this imbecile was campaigning, I could have sworn he was.
There are many issues with Youngkin, and I suspect you already know most of them.
But—McAwful was so much worse—that I have no problem celebrating the outcome.
Trump outperformed Youngkin everywhere. The biggest difference is that the republicans took voter fraud more seriously. They had lawyers and poll watchers at the ready in every mail-in / walk-in polling place.
Youngkin did not beat Trump numbers that is a Fake News lie. Democrats underperformed because actual votes were counted.
Democrats in congress will be desperate to pass their “election reform” bill now. Got to enshrine the cheat into federal law.
Even the WiFi didn’t work …
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Terry McAuliffe campaigned against Donald Trump. Trump beat him.
Go ahead and celebrate but this was no Waterloo.
And who made that happen? Trump supporters.
I think the long faces on CBS Mornings gave even less time to this MAJOR DEM defeat.
Most certainly. It’s just the news media, especially FOX was promoting hard that Youngkin outperformed Trump. I just wanted some reality to settle in.
Youngkin did worse than Trump in every republican district, the difference in the election was cheating, which the news media has failed to acknowledge.
My heart bleeds for William Kristol.
McAuliffe at that point was backing an elected totalitarian schoolboard sphincter who had greviously insulted a mama bear Karen who wasn’t taking no lip on the contenscious issues of CRT and Roberts Rules of Order. Secondly MacDaddy stepped in another steaming pile of fresh collateral doo-doo with another schoolboard trans-action and double assualts while in costume.
My conclsuion is the school board who the NOVACOMS elected, insulted a lefty taxpayer who was feeling the Bern... and the ill-timed frenzy continued on camera, not to mention shuffling a known rapist off to another school to rape again!
Great optics. And perhaps a lesson. Human nature is so predictable.
But NOVA really didn’t change its collective mindset and still voted gimmee last night. Enough early votes and a bit more effort last night may have carried the day. It’s still a squeaker, don’t believe the spin, hype and BS from either side until it is official.
Nice victory. You seem to know a lot more about this than I do, so I’ll leave it at that.
I agree with you (I think).
But given the fact that so much of NoVa is essentially dependent of the largesse of the fed budget, I’m still impressed.
I agree with you (I think).
Youngkin ran a good mistake free campaign, but Trump did beat him in vote totals everywhere, however that is to be expected since it was a Presidential race. I just refused to let a Big Lie stand.
This more fairer election produce other results, a tied state congress, a new AG and Lt. Gov. With the new gov’s added power, the state needs to start acting more like Florida.
A moderate squishy R guy won in VA and gave bare lip service to Trump
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In fact, another squishy R guy, Pence, was among the first to congratulate Youngkin.
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