Glenn Youngkin’s victory over Terry McAuliffe has some lawmakers celebrating and others scrambling to find answers. Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the results won’t impact her party’s agenda. Yet House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy suggests the outcome may foreshadow a trend in future elections.
Virginia’s Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe conceded Wednesday 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 […]
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 […]
Tuesday marks the final day for Virginians to vote for their next governor. The state’s off-year election has boiled down to a handful of issues—in particular, education policy. Just one day earlier, a civil rights leader denounced Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe’s new teacher hiring plan, calling it “racist and insulting.”
The governor’s race in the key state of Virginia is down to the wire. Over the weekend, both Republican and Democratic candidates campaigned hard to shore up support. The result of the race will likely serve as a bellwether for next year’s midterm elections.
Virginians will elect a new governor next Tuesday. The two candidates—Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin—are deadlocked in polls. In an apparent effort to hurt Youngkin’s chances—Democrats are linking him to former President Trump.
Public school policy is once again the topic of debate in Virginia. During the gubernatorial debate on Tuesday, candidates clashed over how much say parents should have over what their children learn at school—while parents rally outside the Loudoun County school board meeting.
Former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe is running again. He won big in the state’s gubernatorial Democratic primary. Virginia bars governors from serving consecutive terms, and McAuliffe could become the first person to serve multiple terms in decades.
