“[I]t is Biden’s 43 percent approval rating in the state that is having more influence on the race…” — @danbalz. The post-mortems on this will focus on the ways that the education bureaucracies have turned parents towards @GlennYoungkin 1 washingtonpost.com/politics/sunda…
In Virginia there have been stories of CRT and —worse— an attempt to cover up rape at one high school. These controversies follow a year lost to Covid and a difficult reopening, as well as the “equity” driven changes at Thomas Jefferson H.S. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/… 2
McAuliffe stepped on rake after rake while Glenn Youngkin has kept up a sunny, optimistic vision for the Commonwealth, but the former governor’s biggest mistake was displaying contempt for parents in calling CRT a racist dog-whistle, which brands concerned parents as racists. 3
Youngkin has methodically toured the state, displaying genuine energy and a first-time candidate’s enthusiasm for the retail side of a campaign. It’s been focused and flawless and McAuliffe, like Congressional Democrats and the president, hasn’t been organized, even coherent. 4
If he runs through tape and wins, Youngkin will have to wake up in the morning thinking how to make Virginia public education better and go to sleep thinking how to make it even better. I don’t recall a GOP campaign as centered on public education as the Youngkin campaign. 5
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