Businessman Glenn Youngkin, a first-time candidate, will be the Republican nominee for governor in Virginia
Businessperson Glenn Youngkin won the Republican nomination for governor in Virginia, emerging from a crowded field to claim the GOP mantle for one of the most closely watched races of 2021.
Youngkin, a former CEO at the private equity firm Carlyle Group, brings a significant capacity to self-fund to the race. He had personally loaned his campaign $5.5 million through the end of March — the last available campaign finance report. Youngkin's victory closes a contentious primary process that saw months of in-fighting among Republicans in the state over the process of how the party would pick its nominee. Eventually, they opted for a “firehouse primary,” but not before multiple gatherings and threats from one of the candidates, controversial state Sen. Amanda Chase, to run as an independent depending on the rules the party put in place.
November’s general election will be perhaps the most competitive statewide race of the year. Though Virginia voted for now-President Joe Biden, the state has often veered away from the party that occupies the White House in gubernatorial races: One year after Virginia voted for Barack Obama, voters in 2009 chose Republican Bob McDonnell for governor by a double-digit margin.
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