McAuliffe, Youngkin make last-minute pitches to voters
The two candidates for Virginia governor made last-minute pitches to voters on the eve of what is expected to be an extremely tight election.
At a campaign stop in Merrifield Nov. 1, Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe urged voters to reject the Trump rhetoric spouted by his opponent, Glenn Youngkin.
Trump endorsed Youngkin and held a virtual rally in support of the Republican candidate Nov. 1. However, the two haven’t campaigned together in person, as Virginia voters rejected Trump twice.
At the Democratic event, McAuliffe and his running mates – Hala Ayala, who’s running for lieutenant governor, and Attorney General Mark Herring – urged their supporters to keep working to get out the vote until the polls close.
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| Left to right: Dorothy McAuliffe, Terry McAuliffe, Hala Ayala, and Mark Herring. |
If elected, McAuliffe vowed to raise teacher pay, provide prekindergarten for all 3 and 4-year-olds, raise the minimum wage to $15 by January 2024, provide paid sick leave and paid family and medical leave, and bring 100 percent clean energy to Virginia by 2035.
Youngkin opposes all of that, McAuliffe said, noting his opponent said “humans don’t contribute to climate change.”
And while Youngkin favors a law banning abortions like the one passed in Texas, McAuliffe promised to be “a brick wall to protect your abortion rights.”
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Youngkin’s campaign meanwhile is focused on giving parents the authority to determine what is taught in schools, banning books, and opposition to critical race theory, which is not being taught in public schools.
If he wins, Youngkin said he would endorse Trump for president in 2024.
McAuliffe said after the riot in Charlottesville in 2017, “I begged [Trump] to condemn the neo-Nazis and White supremacists. He promised me that he would do
it” but never did. Instead, “he finally came out and said they were fine people.”
I hope what your reporting of what McAuliffe said about Charlottesville is wrong because that is not what happened. Trump did condemn white supremacists. And he was also saying that not everyone who was in Charlottesville were white supremacists or Antifa. Many other good people of both sides either supported taking down statues or did not support them. This is basically a media lie that has propagated among Democrats. Find the actual entire quotes from that day and any reasonable person would conclude that McAuliffe is wrong.
Trump made the weakest, latest, most puerile condemnation possible – as usual, wanting to be on the record with having to say something while at the same time winking to his base that he knows he is being forced to say this thing. The former President's history clearly defines who is and what he believes. Trump remains a white supremacist.
"White Supremacist"…ah yes. This is why the left got whooped last night. "You're racist" simply isn't working anymore. The Dems ran it into the ground. Time to come up with some actual ideas.
Bias showing much? You can do better than this, Annandale Blog. This is the most one-sided piece I've seen from you in a while.
Agreed!
Don’t like it don’t read it.
Congrats to the Republicans, especially Winsome Sears being the first African American Woman to be Lieutenant Governor in Virginia!
Although I am a Dem, I must say that the democratic progressive children in Congress caused this calamity. As deserved, the D in democrats now stands for DUMMIES.