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Here are five quick takeaways from Glenn Youngkin’s victory in Virginia.

Winsome Sears (R-VA) made history on Tuesday when she defeated Democrat Hala Ayala in the Virginia lieutenant governor’s race, making her the first black woman to hold statewide office.

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Tuesday on her network’s coverage of election night that Republican Glenn Youngkin won the Virginia Governor race because the suburbs swung 15 points to a “Trump insurrection endorsed Republican” over Critical Race Theory concerns.

The former president attributed Youngkin’s win to the Make America Great Again coalition that supported him for president.

During MSNBC’s election coverage on Tuesday, UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato said that an individual “high up in McAuliffe’s camp” referred to the results in the Virginia governor’s race as “a bloodbath.” Sabato added, “And so far, everything

Democrats were outraged Republican Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin defeated candidate Terry McAuliffe in Virginia’s gubernatorial election Tuesday.

Political outsider Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) to become the next governor of Virginia after a closely watched race widely seen as an indicator of national sentiment heading into next year’s midterms.

Virginia’s most populous county will not meet its self-imposed 8:00 p.m. deadline and is delayed in reporting early voter ballot tallies.

Democratic National Committee chairman Jaime Harrison declared Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that the Republican Party had “become a party of fascism and fear.”

Americans in several states across the country – particularly in Virginia and New Jersey – vote Tuesday in the biggest election since last year’s presidential election and before the upcoming midterm congressional elections in November 2022. Voters in Virginia and New Jersey are voting on who they want to be their next governors, as well as on several important down-ticket offices.

Former campaign manager for the 2008 Barack Obama campaign, David Plouffe said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that in the 2022 midterm elections, Republicans “will be stuck just trying to campaign on culture wars and kissing Donald Trump’s ample behind.”

The latest exit polls out of Virginia show that the economy, jobs, and education were the number one issues for voters heading into election day.

Thirty-four percent of voters say the economy said the economy and jobs is the most important issue, followed by Covid-19 at 17 percent and education at 14 percent.

The Virginia Dep. of Elections commissioner sent out a directive to all election officials barring them from suppressing maskless voters.

President Joe Biden claimed Democrats would win in the Virginia governor’s race Tuesday, just a few hours before the polls closed in the commonwealth.

There is desperation in the waning days of a doomed political campaign. And then there is this Terry McAuliffe train wreck.

Virginia polling precincts on Tuesday are reportedly blocking maskless residents from voting. Mask mandates are reportedly not in place among Virginia counties.

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Faulkner Focus,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) provided some insight on the Virginia gubernatorial race between Democratic candidate former Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin.

A Democrat Virginia delegate was stopped by police hours before Election Day once a deputy saw a woman taking campaign signs and entering a car the delegate was driving.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said on Monday the term “moderate Democrats” is a euphemism used for “vulnerable Democrats.”

Over one-third of voters view Tuesday’s elections in New Jersey and Virginia as a “referendum” on President Joe Biden, a Rasmussen Reports survey released on Election Day revealed. 

Virginia gubernatorial candidate former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) continued to envoke former President Donald Trump’s name on the eve of election day saying it “would be great” to see him back on Twitter.

Republican Glenn Youngkin faces former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) in Tuesday’s election, and the race outcome will boil down to voter turnout as the two candidates head into Election Day in a dead heat, with more than a million votes already cast.

Richmond Times-Dispatch columnist Jeff Schapiro on Tuesday predicted there would be a “red wave in in-person voting” in Virginia’s gubernatorial race between Democratic candidate former Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin.

LOUDOUN, Virginia — Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin ended his marathon statewide tour in Loudoun County, delivering his culminating campaign speech Monday night to thousands of supporters in the wealthy, blue Northern Virginia suburb.

Virginia voters face a stark choice between two competing visions for the commonwealth’s future on Tuesday: whether to continue down a liberal path toward California-style policies and values; or whether to follow Florida’s conservative turn.

Early voting numbers in Virginia’s governor’s election closed with record highs in the contested race between former Democrat Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin.

On Monday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Guy Benson Show,” FNC host Howard Kurtz said that the media, “which loved the Lincoln Project because it was anti-Trump,” have largely given the group and any Democrats involved in the Virginia tiki torch

LOUDOUN, Virginia — The fairgrounds in Northern Virginia’s wealthy suburb of Loudoun County were packed Monday night, buzzing with high energy as lines of cars rolled in to see Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin.

The former president spoke about Youngkin in glowing terms, calling him a great leader who would lead the commonwealth into prosperity after decades of Democrat governors.

With Virginia’s statewide election coming to a close Tuesday and the ever-tightening governor’s race between former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) and Republican businessman Glenn Youngkin being considered a national bellwether coming into the 2022 midterms, control of the Commonwealth’s House of Delegates also remains a ripe opportunity for Republicans to thwart the Old Dominion’s leftward shift after two years of complete Democrat control of government.

Former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder answers to no one. He has always been truly independent, which makes him a problem inside the Democratic Party.

Virginia’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin is leading his Democrat challenger, former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, one day before the election, a Trafalgar Group survey released Monday revealed.

Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin is optimistic about Tuesday’s prospects in his match-up against former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D-VA) on Tuesday.

Former President Donald Trump released a statement on Monday, encouraging Virginians to “get out and VOTE” on Tuesday for Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin as the race comes to a close.

Virginia’s Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe abruptly canceled his event in Virginia Beach the day before the election, sparking further speculation on the degree of behind the scenes panic within the McAuliffe campaign less than 24 hours before polls open.