candidate’s remarkable upset in the governor’s race.
How Glenn Youngkin Won: Here’s a closer look at the G.O.P. What to Know About the 2021 Virginia Election Democrats say they are battling stiff but temporary headwinds: rising inflation, the lingering pandemic and an impression of Democratic incompetency in Washington, where the party has been in a stalemate over passing its big domestic priorities. Polls show a statistically tied race in Virginia, with worrying implications for President Biden, who easily won the state. Youngkin, the issue is parental control of schools, which could broaden his appeal to independents who abandoned the G.O.P. McAuliffe, the issue is abortion rights, newly under threat in the Supreme Court. 2 election, both of which are likely to feature prominently in races elsewhere. “It definitely set the tone in 2017 for the 2018 cycle.”īeyond the broad-brush strategies, each candidate has landed on a favorite issue in the final two weeks before the Nov. “I think every Democrat is following Virginia as a bellwether,” Gordon Hintz, the Democratic leader of Wisconsin’s State Assembly, said. The unexpectedly close contest, which is effectively the opening act of the 2022 midterms, will also test the two parties’ appeal to the most crucial and coveted voters nationwide - those in populous and diverse suburbs, who are widely expected to decide the Virginia race as well as control of Congress next year. 
Trump has been an unavoidable factor in the Virginia campaign.
Youngkin walking a Trump tightrope - nodding to the base on election fraud, while keeping the former president partly at arm’s length - Mr. Trump’s attempts to subvert the 2020 election or Mr.
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