Trump endorses Glenn Youngkin for Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, running for Virginia governor (Source: Glenn Youngkin Campaign) By Associated Press | May 10, 2021 at 4:21 PM EDT - Updated May 11 at 3:52 PM
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP/WWBT) - Political newcomer Glenn Youngkin will be Virginia’s Republican gubernatorial nominee after businessman Pete Snyder conceded Monday night.
Snyder posted his congratulations to Youngkin on Twitter.
While certainly would have preferred a W, I send my heartfelt congratulations to @glennyoungkin on a tremendous race + deserved win. He + the ticket have my 100% support. Grateful to @Bursonsnyder + entire team. Love you all + our big family that is the VA GOP. #openourschools Pete Snyder (@petesnyder) May 11, 2021
This $254-million fortune came in particularly helpful during the campaign. According to the Post, Youngkin was the biggest spending candidate in the GOP primary, and he lent his campaign $5 million of his own money.
3. He ran as an outsider
Youngkin, who has never held public office, pitched himself to voters as an outsider. “I’m not a politician,” he says in his campaign video. “I’ve spent the last 30 years building business and creating jobs. … It’s going to take an outsider, a new kind of leader, to bring a new day to Virginia.”
4. He’s not as Trumpy as others, but he’s still Trumpy
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So, I voted for Amanda Chase this morning in Loudoun County, Virginia. I was one of a reported 52,000 delegates who registered to vote for the Republican candidate for governor this year. The winner will be known in a few days and will almost certainly face former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, in the general election in November.
As I noted in a March VDARE article, the move from a primary to a convention was to prevent “Trump in heels,” Amanda Chase, from winning the Republican nomination. The fact that there is ranked-choice voting, meaning points are given for second, third and other place votes, indicates that the state GOP is hoping for a Youngkin or Snyder to eventually be nominated, even if Chase wins the most first place votes.
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Virginia’s GOP gubernatorial primary is wrapping up this week, ahead of Saturday’s nomination convention. Political outsider and businessman Pete Snyder, one of the frontrunners in the Republican primary contest, has earned endorsements from a variety of conservative leaders on the state and national level.
In the final days of the primary, Snyder also received support from a “conservative icon,” who worked in President Ronald Reagan’s administration. Former Secretary of Education Bill Bennett took note of Snyder’s work to advocate for liberating schools from COVID closures and against detrimental Critical Race Theory in education.
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Opinion: White male Democratic leaders have to actually walk the talk of diversity and opportunity within their party Candidates for Virginia Governor’s race (L-R) Jennifer Carroll Foy and Jennifer McClellan. (Photo: Getty Images)
Right here in the Commonwealth of Virginia, my home state for over 30 years, we remain the only southern state to have elected a Black man as governor since Reconstruction. Let me repeat: the only state, and
L. Douglas Wilder won his historic election as Virginia’s first Black executive when I was in college back in 1989.