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Glenn Youngkin's Victory Is About More Than Biden Backlash

The Democratic electoral bloodbath contains a host of lessons the left doesn't want to learn.

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Ben Domenech
Nov 03, 2021
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Terry McAuliffe was supposed to win Virginia’s governorship easily. He was a popular pro-business former governor who had already won in an off-year election in the state. His decision to nationalize the campaign seemed rational in a blue state that hadn’t elected a Republican statewide since 2009. He had a parade of big guns coming to the state and bou…

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