Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, joining his Georgia counterpart and fellow Republican Brian Kemp at a campaign rally outside Atlanta on Sept. 26, reminded the crowd that the Georgia election revolves around the same issues that drove his own upset victory last year. But the two states’ respective experiences going into last year were very different,…

A former spokesman for Washington D.C. Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser says Joe Biden’s presidency has led him to switch political parties. He also voted for GOP businessman Glenn Youngkin, who defeated Terry McAuliffe last month to become Virginia’s next governor. “The reason I switched parties is because of everything that’s going on in the country…

Virginia’s Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe conceded today after projections indicated he lost the race to Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin. Youngkin, a former CEO, was projected to have won by approximately 67,000 votes of over 3.2 million cast. He gave a victory speech around 1 a.m. Wednesday, calling the development “amazing.” Why? The Democrats Terry…

To lose the gubernatorial race in blue Virginia, even if it was a squeaker, and have even bluer New Jersey—of all places—be competitive and unresolved on the morning after the election was a clear disaster for the Democratic Party and an augury of an even greater disaster in 2022. Campaign visits by Barack Obama, Kamala…

Commentary My how quickly things can change with the right message and the right messenger. Glenn Youngkin’s impressive victory over Democrat re-tread Terry McAuliffe in the race for Virginia governor ought to be a reminder that kindness wins over name-calling and that issues are more important than personality. Parents in Virginia saw the curtain pulled…

Virginia’s Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe conceded Wednesday after projections indicated he lost the race to Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin. “Though this is not the result we’d hoped for, I’m so proud of what we built over the last year,” McAuliffe wrote in a message to supporters. “Losing is never easy. We put ourselves out…

Virginians are heading to vote on Nov. 2 for their next governor. Polls opened at 6 a.m. after early voting numbers set a new record. Some 1.13 million voters submitted early ballots, nearly 20 percent of Virginians who can vote, according to TargetSmart. About 53 percent of the ballots cast so far came from Democrats,…

Commentary The joke goes that a slip of the tongue for a politician means that they accidentally said what they actually believe. Now Democrats are trying to clean up the mess created by Virginia Democratic candidate for governor, Terry McAuliffe, when he said in a debate on Sept. 28, “I don’t think parents should be…

Terry McAuliffe, the Democrat candidate for the Virginia governor’s race, warned that President Joe Biden is “unpopular” in Virginia in off-the-cuff remarks during a video conference. “We’ve got to get Democrats out to vote,” McAuliffe, the former governor of the state, said in the Tuesday night virtual event with Virginia Democrats. “We are facing a lot…

The Virginia gubernatorial election has entered into its final months in the lead-up to election day in November. The most recent poll conducted by Co/efficient on behalf of  Conservatives for Clean Energy shows former Governor Terry McAuliffe barely ahead of Republican Glenn Youngkin, after taking into consideration the poll’s margin of error. Earlier this summer,…