2014 column that black women put mcauliffe in the governor s mansion then. not only did african-american virginians vote at the level they did in obama s 2012 re-election, but black women gave mcauliffe 91% of their votes. he lost white women by 16 percentage points. you know who else agreed with my assessment? terry mcauliffe. i ran into then-governor mcauliffe not long after writing my column to mention my assessment to him, and guess who put you in the governor s mansion, i asked? not expecting mcauliffe to answer, black women, mcauliffe thundered before i could even say it. black women have been saving this republic since its founding. that s especially since the trump era when they helped elect democrats in unlikely places like in alabama and georgia. their votes put president joe biden in the white house, and black turnout will be key if