1. In a 3-tweet thread VA Speaker of the House @EFillerCorn endorses @MarkHerringVA in his reelection bid for VA Atty Gen.
That was an easy 1, but the VA Gov race is going to get CROWDED, likely on both sides. That said, as a former Gov @TerryMcAuliffe is the clear D frontrunner
That was an easy 1, but the VA Gov race is going to get CROWDED, likely on both sides. That said, as a former Gov @TerryMcAuliffe is the clear D frontrunner
2. The GOP nomination is already a shit show for VA Reps, who are trying to avoid nominating VA's version of MTG, @AmandaChaseVA. Chase was packing heat on the VA house floor long before MTG ran for Congress, until the Ds took control & imposed sanity. Her nomination would harken
3. back to the 2018 cycle, when GOP voters insisted on nominating a diff known white supremacist- Corey Stewart. Unlike many other Reps, some VA Rs, or at least right-leaning Indies, refused to support Stewart. Was clear in the ballot returns that Kaine received more crossover/
4. split ballots than typical. So obvs the VA GOP wants to avoid nominating Chase, but like her fellow MAGA/Trump megalomaniacs, Chase doesn't care about what's good for the party electorally, she only cares about what's good for her, and being a political celeb on the Right is
5. what's good for Chase. Similar to the issue national Rs face- VA GOP is STUCK bc the base loves Chase so they can't get rid of her, but they can't win general elections w her as the nominee. UNLIKE nationally though, due to the Trump Effect driving massive turnout surges in VA
6. in the 2017, 2018, and 2019 cycles, Ds now have a governing trifecta (full control) of the state's government. SO, they can't solve their dilemma here as they are solving it elsewhere: by cancelling democracy. @StrikePac will be cutting its teeth here, in the VA '21 cycle.
7. What we're building now is the organization, infrastructure, and team we need to be a large force in the VA '21 cycle to defend the D's hard-fought governing trifecta & the tenure of the state's 1st female speaker @EFillerCorn. Here we will not only debut how to conduct an
8. "branding offensive" against the GOP, but also, how to conduct a positive branding campaign with our #DemocratsDeliver campaign. With it, we will be highlighting for VA voters what their Dem trifecta has been able to do w control of govn't: min wage ⬆️, substantial criminal
9. justice and police reform, LGBTQ+ protections, sane gun policy, voter access reforms, environmental regs, pot decriminalization (& soon, legalization!), & ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment, to name just a few! Stuff the #PartyofNo had been holding hostage for years. In fact
10. after losing the state house, the state senate Rs FINALLY caved & expanded Medicaid under Obamacare to try to save their seats (too little, too late to save themselves from the anti-Trump waves). The VA 2021 elections will need to be a referendum on Trump's Rep Party & their
11. ability to govern. It's a party overrun by extremists who can't be trusted w power. Had the GOP controlled VA through COVID how many Virginians would have died? How many of our kids, their parents or grandparents, after they were forced back into unsafe schools?
No TX here!
No TX here!
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