Youngkin’s Virginia-oriented strategy seems to be growing and Mr. We will know today or tomorrow who won, but as of right now Mr. the school bureaucrats theme is working to Mr. Now, a new story indicates McAuliffe’s former law firm has been representing the Fairfax County School Board against a 12-year-old girl who claims to have been gang-raped on a middle school campus. The recent stories that the Loudoun County School Board just plain lied about the rape of a high school girl in the girl’s bathroom by a boy in a skirt only increased the anger. This comment supercharged the already ensuing debate in Northern Virginia over closed schools, critical race theory, transgender policy, ending accelerated math classes in the name of equity, and the new race-based admissions policy at Thomas Jefferson High School. Youngkin’s team was able to get an ad up within 12 hours.
McAuliffe made a huge mistake in a debate and said he did not think parents have a say over school curricula. Trump, and he succeeded in making his own campaign into Mr. McAuliffe’s nationalized campaign seems tone-deaf and status quo. At a time of inflation, the Youngkin plan has practical appeal. Youngkin’s ads have been about policy proposals that stick with voters: getting rid of the grocery tax, suspending Virginia’s recent gas tax hike, and addressing the high cost of living by doubling the standard deduction for state income tax. Youngkin’s conversations have been about positive steps to improve Virginia’s economy and the lives of Virginians. Youngkin signs in suburban Fairfax County (whose massive Democratic majority is the keystone of the McAuliffe strategy). You can tell all this by the number of Mr. Youngkin’s practical, problem-solving approach is simply more comforting than Mr. The suburbanites who may have voted for Biden in 2020 are seeing inflation, the border crisis, and other policy failures associated with national Democrats – and now Mr. McAuliffe is now in the worst of all worlds. McAuliffe’s clearly political attack into a real argument. In a gubernatorial race, people simply do not translate Mr. Senate race in which national issues and national personalities really matter, perhaps the McAuliffe attacks would have more punch. Youngkin is a business executive who is focused on state issues rather than national ones. This strategy fell apart for three reasons.įirst, the core assumption isn’t believable.
So, the McAuliffe calculus was simple: Consolidate the anti-Trump vote, convince people Mr. McAuliffe’s biggest effort was to make Mr. He has rejected the national rhetoric and focused continuously on Virginia issues and Virginia solutions. Youngkin entered the race knowing that his greatest strength would be local issues and local concerns.
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