Democratic proponents and activists argue that a party-wide adoption of the Green New Deal plan helped the party flip six seats in Virginia's House of Delegates and two in the Senate:
Democrats who ran on newly-progressive platforms, like the Green New Deal, and made major gains in the Virginia state government on Tuesday credit those approaches as part of the reason for their successes at the close of expensive and ultra-competitive races.
With a Democrat in the governor's mansion, this will be the first time in 26 years that Democrats will have a trifecta in the state government. Cole’s new seat sits in Stafford County and encompasses Fredericksburg in northern Virginia, an area of the state where Democrats are starting to see more success. Cole won the seat by four points and said that voters in his district were majorly concerned about transportation and infrastructure issues and making long-term improvements on roads and bridges.
Also among the state Democratic party’s adoption of progressive policies earlier this year were resolutions in support of 100% clean energy and $15 an hour minimum wage. “You look at Virginia, I actually helped there with some of the legislative races. And you look at who won there, this incredible diverse field of candidates...who are really the antithesis of what this president is about,” Kloubuchar said.
“Tonight’s results are a wake-up call for national Democrats. The path to winning back the places we’ve lost isn’t through impractical proposals or the latest Beltway obsessions — it’s by focusing on solving problems in the here and now,” Bullock said in a statement Tuesday night.
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