McAuliffe and Youngkin spent the final weekend before Tuesday’s gubernatorial election imploring supporters to send a message beyond the borders of this one-time swing state
WEST SPRINGFIELD, Va. — The two men seeking to become Virginia’s next governor spent the final weekend before Tuesday’s election imploring supporters to send a message beyond the borders of this one-time swing state.
“Trump wants to win here so he can announce for president for 2024,” McAuliffe said at a canvassing kickoff on Sunday in Manassas. “That’s the stakes of this election. He wants to get himself off the mat.” At the same event, Rep. Jennifer Wexton — who flipped a House seat in the 2018 wave — said Republicans were “beta testing” messages in Virginia for the 2022 midterms.
McAuliffe has called in Democrats from across the country to campaign for him. That includes the heaviest of hitters: President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama all stumped for him over the last 10 days. But he also cast a larger net that included everyone from Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, a former Michigan governor, and Sen. Alex Padilla .
“Texas, for sure,” said state Sen. Jennifer McClellan, a Democrat whom McAuliffe defeated in the gubernatorial primary, in a brief interview at an event in Richmond, citing the state’s near-total abortion ban and restrictive voting laws. McClellan said that voting rights, in particular, was a motivator for Black voters and that the state’s expanded voting “is on the ballot.”
This, most notably, includes Trump. Democrats have been hoping to bait him into visiting the state. Trump is expected to host a tele-rally on Monday evening, and Youngkin told reporters on Saturday that he didn’t plan on participating.Saturday marked the end of early in-person voting in Virginia, where over 1.1 million people voted early this year, according to.
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