A deserved Democratic defeat and Republican victory | Washington Examiner
For his part, Youngkin played the Trump issue as safely as possible, accepting the former president’s endorsement but not asking him to campaign in the state. While Youngkin did prioritize election integrity, a key issue for Trump voters in the primary, he also readily acknowledged that President Biden is our president.
The end result was an electorate ready to move beyond the suffocating polarization of the Trump era and respond primarily instead to the lamentable and enraging failures of the Democrats actually in power now, and send the arrogant education bureaucracy a message about the direction of schools.
Maybe that is the national implication of the Virginia governor’s race: If Republicans can find political outsiders with the instincts to identify widely popular grassroots issues that the ideologically hidebound Left ignores, and the discipline to stay on message, they can win elections, even in states where they haven t won in over a decade.