{"id":230,"date":"2021-08-17T01:27:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T01:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/?p=230"},"modified":"2021-08-17T01:32:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T01:32:25","slug":"__trashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/__trashed\/","title":{"rendered":"Youngkin wins Virginia GOP nomination for governor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Businessperson Glenn Youngkin, a first-time candidate, will be the Republican nominee for governor in Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Glenn Youngkin, a former CEO at the private-equity firm Carlyle Group, emerged as the the Republican nominee for governor in Virginia after a full day of tabulation of ranked-choice ballots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Youngkin defeated fellow businessperson Pete Snyder in the sixth and final round of a ranked-choice tabulation that took most of the day on Monday, 55 percent to 45 percent, though Snyder conceded before counting concluded. Virginia Republicans eschewed holding a state-run primary and instead opted for what organizers described as an \u201cunassembled convention,\u201d with about 30,000 pre-registered Republicans voting at nearly 40 sites across the commonwealth on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2014 according to the last available campaign finance report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVirginians have made it clear that they are ready for a political outsider with proven business experience to bring real change in Richmond,\u201d Youngkin said in a statement shortly after Snyder conceded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201cfirehouse primary,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

November\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, former President Donald Trump remains a very unpopular figure. He lost Virginia to Biden by 10 points, and a Christopher Newport University poll earlier this year found that a majority of Virginia voters said Trump was worse than most presidents while in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in order to win over the party activists in the primary, Youngkin and the rest of the gubernatorial field embraced much of Trump\u2019s legacy. One of Youngkin\u2019s earliest moves in the race was to introduce an \u201celection integrity task force\u201d \u2014 an unmistakable response to Trump\u2019s repeated false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. He also promoted a clip of the former president praising him during the trade war with China. (Trump, who has weighed in on Republican primaries in other states, including intraparty battles for state party chair posts, did not endorse in this race.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Youngkin, like much of the rest of the field, ran on red-meat conservative issues. The former Rice University basketball player\u2019s campaign cut a March Madness-themed ad hitting Democrats\u2019 \u201cout there socialist ideas\u201d including defunding the police, \u201ccanceling Dr. Seuss\u201d and raising taxes. And in the closing days of the primary campaign, he barnstormed the state with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a late endorsee of Youngkin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republicans largely expect to face off against McAuliffe in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McAuliffe narrowly won in 2013 in a race that included a Libertarian candidate who earned about 6.5 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former governor blasted Youngkin in a statement shortly after his victory. \u201cGlenn Youngkin has gone all in on Trump’s most dangerous, divisive conspiracy theories, and his extreme social agenda is clear,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cI’ve beaten extreme Republicans like Glenn before, and I’m ready to do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republicans also picked state Del. Jason Miyares as their nominee for state attorney general. In the Democratic primary next month, incumbent Mark Herring is facing off against an intraparty challenger, state Del. Jay Jones. The vote counting for the Republican lieutenant governor\u2019s nomination is expected to take place on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the statewide races, there will likely be a fierce battle over the state House, which Democrats flipped in 2019, giving them unified control of state government for the first time in decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats have won a string of victories in Virginia in statewide races as of late. After McAulliffe\u2019s narrow victory in 2013, Northam won by about 9 points over Republican Ed Gillespie in 2017. Biden’s 10-point victory in 2020 was a roughly 5-point improvement over Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 margin of victory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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