Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe cruised to victory in the state's Democratic gubernatorial primary. He'll now face Glenn Youngkin, a former Carlyle Group chief executive who won the Republican nomination in a party convention about a month ago.
since entering the race last December, significantly outraising his four other opponents and staking out a sizable lead in public polling throughout the race. His victorywon the Republican nominationThe November election will be the first major election during President Joe Biden’s tenure in the White House — and a measure of how damaging now-former President Donald Trump was to the state Republican Party here, which had been ransacked during Trump’s four years in office.
Some Democrats in the state fretted about apparent low turnout in the primary — “there’s more cicadas than there are voters,” one aide on a gubernatorial campaign quipped — although that comes with the caveat that this was the first election under new state laws that provided for a month and a half of early voting.
. He had already turned much of his attention toward Youngkin, calling him an “extremist” and focusing on him in fundraising emails to supporters . Virginia has long been a political bellwether in new presidential administrations, frequently swinging against the party that won the previous year. But during Trump’s tenure in the White House, the state swiftly abandoned Republicans. It started when now-Gov. Ralph Northam crushed Republican Ed Gillespie in the 2017 gubernatorial contest, well overperforming expectations at the time, and never really letting up.
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