From National Review:
“Republican Glenn Youngkin was declared the winner of the Virginia gubernatorial race by a number of outlets and election analysts on Tuesday night after a hard-fought campaign that he entered as a significant underdog.
“Despite trailing former governor Terry McAulife by as much as six and a half points in the RealClearPolitics polling average as late as the last week of August, Youngkin ultimately triumphed thanks to a hyper-focus on local issues and a commitment to walking the line between Trump supporters in rural, southern Virginia and wealthier suburbanites who were alienated by the MAGA wing of the party.
“Youngkin will take office in 2022 after eight years of Democratic control of the state’s executive branch, and after two years years of a Democratic trifecta of the governor’s mansion and both chambers of the legislature running the state.
“According to the state’s department of elections, McAuliffe will only be able to ask for a recount if the final margin separating him from Youngkin ‘is not more than one percent (1%) of the total votes cast for those two candidates.’ ”
Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin talks to people outside a polling place on the Election Day at Rocky Run Middle School in Chantilly, Virginia, Nov. 2, 2021.
