Salena Zito joined the Washington Examiner in 2016 as a Pittsburgh-based columnist and reporter and is also a columnist at the New York Post. She is the author of The Great Revolt. She previously wrote for the Atlantic and spent the last 11 years at the Pittsburgh Tribune Review as both a reporter and a columnist covering national politics.
RICHMOND, Virginia — Drive throughout Virginia, and it becomes quickly apparent there are two very different messages coming from the major political parties about what this election cycle is about in this once-blue state flirting with becoming purple.
And he reinforced that message on the ABC Sunday morning show, saying this was a moment for Virginia lawmakers to come together around reasonable limits, such as protecting life at 15 weeks when a baby feels pain, with full exceptions in the case of rape and incest and when the mother's life is at risk.
“Our focus remains on the kitchen table — cost of living, public safety, and empowering parents and education,” he said, adding it is particularly worrisome to consider what type of curriculum young people have been consuming for the past generation that has led to the antisemitic protests at some of the country’s most elite universities.
Youngkin has set out to hold the state house and flip the Senate, a message he has said repeatedly as he campaigned in the closing days of the election for three candidates in the suburbs of Richmond. They are all seats that on paper should favor Democrats, but if the Republicans win them, it would give the GOP a majority in Virginia's General Assembly.
Next up is in Prince William County with Bill Woolf, an impressive former law enforcement and child sex-trafficking expert who has worked for Republicans and Democrats in the federal administration and was a detective in Prince William for years. Woolf is bilingual and has six children. He is running for a seat that Youngkin lost by a couple of points but has some historic Republican roots that, if the Republicans get good turnout, can surprise there.
If Youngkin’s approach on kitchen table issue messaging, the candidate quality, and the aggressive mail-in voting effort is effective, it will be key to what gets Republicans over the finish line in a state Biden won by 10 points.
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