In an announcement, Mr. McAuliffe in contrast Mr. Youngkin to different Republicans who “fawn throughout Donald Trump” and “totally embrace his exc
In an announcement, Mr. McAuliffe in contrast Mr. Youngkin to different Republicans who “fawn throughout Donald Trump” and “totally embrace his excessive, right-wing agenda,” including, “Now, Glenn Youngkin has paid sufficient to buy the Republican gubernatorial nomination so he can run Donald Trump’s harmful playbook right here in Virginia.”
Republicans haven’t received a statewide election in Virginia since 2009, a mirrored image of the state’s altering demographics in addition to the get together’s tendency lately to appoint candidates who fanned divisive social points, quite than appealed to suburban voters on kitchen-table priorities.
The thumping that Mr. Northam administered to his Republican rival in 2017 was each a rejection of Mr. Trump and a catalyst in additional pushing Virginia, a once-purple state, out of the Republican orbit. Mr. Trump misplaced Virginia by 10 share factors in November.
Nonetheless, Republicans imagine they’ve a greater probability of successful statewide this 12 months than at any time within the final decade, after Democrats, who took full management in Richmond in 2020, handed sweeping liberal laws on gun restrictions, elevating the minimal wage and different points.
Mr. Youngkin, 54, was raised in Virginia Seaside and has lived in Northern Virginia for 25 years. Moreover defeating Mr. Snyder, a expertise entrepreneur, he additionally outlasted State Senator Amanda Chase, who was censured in a bipartisan vote of the state’s Basic Meeting for calling the rioters on the Capitol on Jan. 6 “patriots.”
Supporters of Ms. Chase accused Snyder partisans within the state get together of rejecting a main and engineering Saturday’s “disassembled conference” to harm her possibilities. Ms. Chase had stated that if he grew to become the nominee, she would run as an unbiased. There isn’t a indication she intends to try this with Mr. Youngkin heading the get together’s ticket, which may also embody nominees for lieutenant governor and lawyer basic.
Many G.O.P. insiders heaved a sigh of reduction that the nomination for governor was not received by Ms. Chase, believing that her general-election candidacy would have been more likely to go down in flames given how deeply unpopular Mr. Trump is in Virginia.