Michael Pope reports
During a televised debate from Norfolk Tuesday night, Democrats running for governor staked out clear policy positions giving voters a sense of what the candidates would do if elected.
Senator Jennifer McClellan says she would expand services covered by Medicaid. Ensuring we are addressing dental, vision, pregnant women up to the first full year after birth, McClellan said.
Former Delegate Jennifer Carroll Foy says she would implement anti-racist policies. I will tackle mass incarceration in a real way by reforming our cash bail system, Carroll Foy promised.
Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax says he would build on police reform efforts. We should have universal body cameras for every single law enforcement officer here in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Fairfax argued, and they should be mandated to be turned on.
Fundraising, Name Recognition Shape Virginia Democratic Primary Races
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Terry McAuliffe embraces Biden in bid for second term as Virginia governor By Aaron Navarro
June 1, 2021 / 11:21 AM / CBS News
Inside the Champion Brewing Company in Charlottesville, Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, the former Virginia governor who s running for his old job, was talking to owner Hunter Smith last week when a staffer handed him a mask for continuity with everyone else. The president says don t wear masks inside, McAuliffe parried before putting on the mask. I don t like to argue with Joe Biden.
As he tries to reclaim the governor s seat, too, McAuliffe, a longtime Democrat, is also sticking close to the president s campaign approach, hoping to replicate his 2020 success when Mr. Biden won Virginia by double digits in both the primary and general elections.
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Virginia’s gubernatorial contests always held a year after a presidential election are often viewed as a referendum on the party holding the White House, and that is usually bad news for that party. In most Virginia gubernatorial elections, the victor has come from the party not in the White House.
But the state in recent years has tilted increasingly Democratic Biden won it by more than 10 percentage points, about twice Hillary Clinton’s margin in 2016. Republicans have not won a statewide election since 2009.
Republicans improved their chances of ending that losing streak in 2021, analysts say, by nominating Youngkin. Establishment party leaders were especially relieved that the nomination was not won by Amanda Chase, a state senator considered the most provocative of the alternatives. Known as “Trump in heels,” Chase was kicked off of her legislative committees after she participated in the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the storming of the Capitol by Tr
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Glenn Youngkin, formerly of the Carlyle investment firm, is Virginia’s Republican nominee for governor. The state’s GOP announced the decision Monday night, following a statewide unassembled convention that had occurred two days earlier.
Today, he quickly picked up the endorsement of former President Donald Trump.
Youngkin was selected from a crowded field of seven Republicans, all vying to be the CEO of the state.
Earlier this year, Youngkin sat down with me for an exclusive interview to talk about his campaign and what it will take for a Republican to win the governor’s mansion something that has not happened in more than a decade.
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