“Virginia, Maryland, Illinois, California, and Michigan
All states run by liberals”
Virginia has a Democrat Governor right now, but the legislature is Republican, and the Governor position is relatively weak in Virginia. It historically leans more Republican than Democrat, but is a swing state.
Maryland has been solidly Democrat-run for some time. However, last election, they voted in a Republican Governor (who quickly flooded Baltimore with thousands of National Guard and Police from around the state, once the fires started). The Maryland Governor is considered to have the strongest powers of any US Governor, under their State constitution.
I live in northern VA and far more relevant than the governorship is the sheer # of muslims who live here. The 911 jihadists came from NoVA, there’s no reason to doubt that there are more where that came from.