Virginia isn’t Alabama.
It’s a D+6 State with an extreme left urban wokester core.
Youngkin threaded the needle perfectly. He held the rural Trump base, but also appealed to the convincible soccer mom vote in the less woke suburbs.
If you look at the electoral map, Virginia is a red state turned blue by the heavily populated DC suburbs in the northeast part of the state.
Glenn Youngkin tapped into the wellspring that is feeding the Trump revolution, without ever saying much about Trump.
Actually Twitter may have given Donald Trump even MORE voice in how elections go, by silencing him, rather than to allow all the “mean tweets” to go out. People who could not STAND Trump personally (because of the “mean tweets”) look back longingly and with remorse, because whoever is now in charge of White Hut decisions, is not acting on behalf of America.
That fed into a large part of the showing in New Jersey as well, not so much FOR the Republican candidate, but AGAINST the Joe Stolen/”Que mala” Harris regime.
But Democrats being Democrats, they will probably now double down on all the bad bets they are making. The Democrat Socialists won’t allow the rest of the party any latitude whatsoever.
Believe nothing, The Hill.
McAuliffe completely blew it by saying parents shouldn’t tell schools what to teach. What a dumb thing to say out loud.
Then this boy in a skirt rapes two girls in the girls’ bathroom - and the Democrats demonize parents for getting angry about it at school board meetings. Dumb Dumb Dumb.
Trump and his MAGA posse saw blood in the water and showed Youngkin the roadmap to victory.
Youngkin was smart enough to capitalize on it - but there’s no doubt in my mind this was Trump and MAGA all the way.
Agreed. As a Virginia resident, I have seen the politics change here drastically over the last 20 years. Youngkin is the kind of Republican that can win in a state like VA. Trump could not win VA. In fact, he underperformed RINOs like GWBush, McCain and Romney here. Not enough blue collar white voters for Trump to be a net positive for Repubs in VA. Tons of suburban white women here who disliked Trump’s style.
You are right on the mark, TexasGurl24. Trump is wrong to try and take all credit for this because Youngkin owned this race and deserves all the credit. Trumps MAGA base came through but a ton of Independents and Dems responded to Glenn’s message and McAwful’s awfulness. Way to go, Virginia!
Trump is right. That rural massive turnout. Was all MAGA.. he held on to them and Trumps urging to flood the system made sure they showed up