'Going into 2020, we need to send a strong message…that we are supporting certain values and certain candidates who are going to fight for us.'
Dulanda Saintcyr who, at 18, has served as president of the Youth Council of the Stafford County NAACP for three years, said her activism was particularly influenced by the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin. “That was really my first experience with the nation’s race relations,” she recalled. Dulanda and Joyce are among the cofounders of the Mobilizing Youth Project, which helps youth in Virginia become involved with progressive campaigns.
“All of them were damaged to some degree,” Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics told. According to Kondik, the most noteworthy effect of the scandal has been the absence of the governor, or any Democrats currently in statewide office, on the campaign trail. Over at George Washington University, Harita, the Democratic activist said, “I do think it depends on who you’re talking to. The majority of youth voters do find it very troubling.
And the significance of that fight is not lost on the national party. Democrats in Virginia have raised $31.8 million, nearly double their totals for the last “off-off year” election in 2015, and the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee has committed $1 million to candidates in the state.
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