Democratic Disaster: Glenn Youngkin Wins Virginia Governor's Race In GOP Clean Sweep

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : For conservative voters he hoped to reach via right-wing news outlets and campaign surrogates, he embraced the mantle of "election integrity," the euphemism Republicans have adopted to nod to Trump's lies about election fraud and restrict voting rights nationwide, suggested he'd take more aggressive steps to roll back abortion access than he acknowledged publicly, and played up fears about the teaching of "critical race theory" in public schools.
48% : Late in the race, McAuliffe hit Youngkin and the GOP for seeking to divert funding away from public schools and toward private education, in an attempt to link him to former Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' plans to privatize public schools.
44% : With majorities in both state legislative chambers, Democrats expanded Medicaid, bolstered abortion rights, passed one of the nation's most expansive voting rights laws, abolished the death penalty, increased the minimum wage and implemented new LGBTQ protections.
42% : Youngkin branded himself early in the race as a moderate outsider, and targeted swing voters with ads focused on tax cuts, charter schools and raises for teachers and police officers.

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