The Republican candidate embraced Trump voters, the Trump ethos and the Trump approach but not the Trump pugilistic character nor Trump himself
Guests to the election night party for Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin watch election results come in on television in Chantilly, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021.Businessman Glenn Youngkin won the high-drama, high-spending and high-stakes Virginia gubernatorial election Tuesday. But the real winner was Donald J. Trump.
Mr. McAuliffe, who occupied the historic 208-year-old Virginia executive mansion from 2014 to 2018 and is closely identified with both Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, stumbled toward the finish line —and as a result the Democrats, who won Virginia by 10 points only a year ago, already are recasting their playbook for next year’s critical midterm congressional elections and the presidential election that follows two years later.
Mr. McAuliffe, and his high-priced consultants, also misread the nature of political races that do not occur in presidential-election years. In those races, the notion that “all politics is local”— promulgated by the late House speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill Jr. of Cambridge, Mass., himself a product more of the Barry’s Corner neighbourhood than of Harvard Square a 20-minute walk away — prevails.
Mr. McAuliffe erred by stating in a late September debate that “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” The education issue was particularly potent across the state and was a powerful spur to voter turnout in strong GOP areas — and in the suburbs where the Democrats are pinning their hopes for next year’s midterm congressional election.
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