‘People are going to get skittish:’ White House sweats over McAuliffe...Race in Virginia to shape outlook for the midterms. Dems can't afford losing!

[basquebromance]

Dems want the focus kept on Trump instead of the failures of Biden and the Dems

‘People are going to get skittish:’ White House sweats over McAuliffe

The governor’s race in Virginia could shape the outlook for the midterms. Democrats can’t afford a loss.

www.politico.com

 

[basquebromance]

reading this part is euphoric for Republicans, hell for Dems:

They know what’s at stake. A loss to Republican Glenn Youngkin in the off-cycle governor’s race could set off a domino effect, with Democrats panicking and thinking it’s 2009 all over again — the year they last lost the state’s gubernatorial race, followed by a wipeout in Congress. Democrats fear the party will lose faith in the idea that Biden’s agenda will help boost their electoral prospects; that they’ll fret about his broader handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, and even question the embrace of vaccine mandates as an electoral cudgel after it found favor with a wide swath of Americans.

“There should be concern, it’s a close race. If Terry loses that’s going to scare a lot of Democrats on the Hill. It’s going to make people worry about the midterms and it’s going to make it harder to pass the president’s agenda,” said Josh Schwerin, a Democratic strategist who has worked as a McAuliffe political adviser and former press secretary. “People are going to get skittish if we lose this.”

 

[struth]

ah VA is pretty blue…it would be a major upset…but if the dems win it’s really not a sign of what is coming…if they lose…the tidal wave is going to be far bigger then expected

 

[Calypso Jones]

Voter fraud has not been fixed in Northern Virginia..and now they have no shame. We all know they're cheaters but they don't CARE if we know it.

I can't see Youngkin winning. he's the repunklican version of McAuliffe. A Carpetbagger. A rino. It took forever for him to even say what his platform is. and it's damn little from what i can gather. I don't expect him to do anything different than Northam OR McAuliffe.

 

[Lysistrata]

I'm a Virginia voter. Once again, the republicans are running yet another cheap cult whore. No abortion, no LGBTs, no masks. The usual. This isn't Texas. We believe in freedom here. When are the republicans going to straighten up?

 

[Erinwltr]

ah VA is pretty blue…it would be a major upset…but if the dems win it’s really not a sign of what is coming…if they lose…the tidal wave is going to be far bigger then expected

Nope.
Virginia is a state that is very Red, with very high, concentrated population centers that track Blue. Which includes wealty suburbs that like Bidens agenda. Thus the term, Purple. College educated folks in the burbs are the key.

McAulitte will do just fine. This state is not a bellweather.