Reviewing Youngkin ads the major themes I see are economy/taxes/prices, schools/parents, and police/crime/safety.
https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1454096459410857984
Youngkin tries to link McAuliffe, "defend the police" (which McAuliffe doesn't support but some outside group backing him did), and the argument that Arlington and Alexandria taking police out of schools made those schools less safe
Last year Alexandria VA's city council voted to take armed police officers out of schools and redirect those funds to mental health resources.
After a tumultuous start to the school year they reversed course this month, voting to bring officers back
alxnow.com/2021/10/13/in-…
After a tumultuous start to the school year they reversed course this month, voting to bring officers back
alxnow.com/2021/10/13/in-…
Of course McAuliffe had nothing to do with that situation.
Youngkin could argue that school police defunders are on the left generally. But his attempts to more closely tie it to McAuliffe it have been bogus, like this claim about "Soros-backed allies"
jewishexponent.com/2021/10/22/gle…
Youngkin could argue that school police defunders are on the left generally. But his attempts to more closely tie it to McAuliffe it have been bogus, like this claim about "Soros-backed allies"
jewishexponent.com/2021/10/22/gle…
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