Biden’s campaign promises, not yet returned to a pre-Covid sense of normalcy. Or, in what would be even more politically perilous, that the party’s motivation has been replaced by a sense of dissatisfaction with the state of a country that has, despite all of Mr. Perhaps most strikingly, the crushing setbacks for Democrats in heavily suburban Virginia and New Jersey hinted at a conservative-stoked backlash to the changing mores around race and identity championed by the party, as Republicans relentlessly sought to turn schools into the next front in the country’s culture wars.įor Democrats, the results on the nation’s single biggest day of voting until the midterms next year raised alarms that the wave of anti-Trump energy that carried them into power has curdled into apathy in a base that is tired of protesting and is largely back at brunch. In Minneapolis, voters rejected a ballot measure pushed by progressives that would have replaced the Police Department with a public safety department. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, won a stunningly close race after being expected to coast to victory. A new day where all Virginians, all of us, can deserve to look forward to grabbing, to aspiring, to dreaming and then achieving that great Virginia promise. Together, together we can build a new day, a new day for Virginians, where, yes, we soar and we never settle. This is the spirit of Virginia coming together like never before, the spirit of Washington and Jefferson and Madison and Monroe and Patrick Henry, of Virginians standing up and taking our commonwealth back. And friends, all of that has changed tonight. We’ll be a commonwealth of high expectations. For too long, we’ve been expected to shelve our dreams, to shelve our hope, to settle for low expectations, we will not be a commonwealth of low expectations.
A place where the relentless pursuit for a better life for prosperity is not burdened or blocked by self-interested politicians who are more focused on their futures than those they were elected to serve. It’s time for Virginia to be the place where everyone wants to live, not leave. Together, together, we will change the trajectory of this commonwealth. Transcript Glenn Youngkin Delivers Gubernatorial Victory Speech The Republican Glenn Youngkin, a former private-equity executive, defeated the Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the race for Virginia’s governor.Īll righty, Virginia, we won this thing.
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