McAuliffe’s attempt to tie Youngkin to Trump and use the former president as a boogeyman seems to be no longer effective, Republican insiders said
Photo: Getty Images Republicans were gleeful about Glenn Youngkin’s win in the Virginia governor’s race on Tuesday night, feeling a sense of relief from a GOP statewide sweep that their party has cut away the baggage of Donald Trump almost a year to the day he lost the presidency.
It wasn’t just that Youngkin won but he was able to defang the attack that Democrats used against Republican candidates for the past half decade, tying them to Trump. McAuliffe used this relentlessly. One jibed: “I don’t know what Terry’s message was? ‘I’m not Donald Trump and the guy that I’m going against is Donald Trump?’”
In fact, they said, Democrats had a greater problem at the top of their party than Republicans did. Biden’s sagging approval ratings, plus a bumpy post-COVID economic recovery dogged by rising inflation, made voters sour on McAuliffe, who was practically an incumbent trying to hold the governor’s mansion for his party . One Republican operative involved in the race noted that Biden’s slide in the polls in August coincided with McAuliffe slipping at the same time.
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