Parents rebellion puts GOP's Youngkin in Virginia governors office

 National Review:

Republican Glenn Youngkin was declared the winner of the Virginia gubernatorial race by a number of outlets and election analysts on Tuesday night after a hard-fought campaign that he entered as a significant underdog.

Despite trailing former governor Terry McAuliffe by as much as six and a half points in the RealClearPolitics polling average as late as the last week of August, Youngkin ultimately triumphed thanks to a hyper-focus on local issues and a commitment to walking the line between Trump supporters in rural, southern Virginia and wealthier suburbanites who were alienated by the MAGA wing of the party.

While some prognosticators such as Cook Political’s Dave Wasserman called the race before 9:00p.m. on Tuesday, networks like Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, and NBC waited until early on Wednesday morning to project Youngkin as the winner.

Taking the stage at his election night victory party, Youngkin told the assembled crowd, “together we will change the trajectory of this commonwealth. And friends we are going to start that transformation on day one. There is no time to waste. Our kids can’t wait, we work in real people time not government time.”

He went on to detail his priorities for education reform, vowing to pair an increase in the public education budget with an expansion of school choice. He also nodded toward the defining issue of the race: parent involvement in school curricula.

“We are going to embrace Virginia parents, not ignore them,” he said.
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It was a bad night for Democrats elsewhere around the country as a Republican was leading in the deep blue state of New Jersey Governor's race.  In Minneapolis, the liberals lost an election on trying to "reimagine" their police department.

Youngkin won largely on the basis of the education issue and the anger of parents at the teaching of CRT and trans rights.  The Democrats had a mixed message on the issue proclaiming that CRT was not being taught or defending the alleged anti-racism curriculum which most parents saw as racist.

See, also:

Twitter roasts MSNBC for Election Night meltdown 
'MSNBC is currently going through the 7 stages of grief on an endless loop in real time,' Buck Sexton wrote

And: 

The Must-See Meltdown Begins After Glenn Youngkin's Huge Win

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