Youngkin becomes GOP governor candidate after Synder concedes
Political analysts anticipate that this year s gubernatorial race will be an expensive and highly-contested election.
By: WTVR CBS 6 Web Staff , Tracy Sears
Posted at 10:41 PM, May 10, 2021
and last updated 2021-05-10 23:31:21-04
FALLS CHURCH, Va. On Monday night, Glenn Youngkin secured the spot as the Republican nominee for governor after entrepreneur Pete Snyder conceded.
Youngkin, a former CEO of a global investment firm, received 55.36% of the votes over Snyder, allowing him to cinch the race.
Snyder took to Twitter on Monday to send his best wishes to Youngkin following his concession.
Snyder pushes to fully reopen schools, businesses in GOP bid for Virginia Governor
Updated at February 24, 2021 - Uriah Kiser Snyder
Now cross-crossing Virginia campaigning to be its next governor, Pete Snyder doesn’t often get to eat breakfast with his child.
Recently, however, he did. After they ate, his daughter Bee, 6, showed him something special hanging on her bulletin board. There, above her desk, Bee had pinned three of her father’s campaign bumper stickers to her bulletin board. It was a proud dad moment for the candidate.
Snyder, 48, has talked a lot about children in recent weeks, putting pressure on Gov. Ralph Northam to reopen schools to in-person learning. Recent studies in Prince William County and across the U.S. show virtual learning is failing most children. Many miss interacting with their peers and with trusted adults who had been there to help guide their development.
By Julia Manchester - 02/10/21 06:00 AM EST
A Virginia state senator and gubernatorial candidate who has described herself as “Trump in heels” is emerging as a problem for the state’s Republican party as they seek to take the governor’s mansion.
Amanda Chase boasts enthusiastic grassroots support in pockets of the state. But she has also drawn bipartisan rebuke for incendiary statements calling for martial law to overturn the 2020 presidential election and seemingly expressing support for the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol. That s left Democrats eager to paint her as the face of the state’s Republican Party.