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Pro-Life Youngkin dead-even with pro-abortion McAuliffe as race enters finally two and a half weeks

Oct 15, 2021

By Dave Andrusko

Pro-life Glenn Youngkin

This year’s off-election battle for the governorship in Virginia has turned into the barnburner many have hoped for but not many predicated. However, the latest Trafalgar Group survey shows a dead-heat between pro-abortion Terry McAuliffe and pro-life Glenn Youngkin: 48 % each. This is not an outlier: Youngkin has steadily cut into McAuliffe’s advantage going back months.

Another clear signal the tides are changing is the New York Times has taken time away from whining about the Texas Heartbeat Law to crush Youngkin. This would not be necessary if McAuliffe were cruising.

What’s amusing is that while Youngkin is trashed on various and sundry grounds most stories, including this morning’s by Jonathan Martin, are thinly disguised pleas for Democrats to “wake up,” take Youngkin seriously, and vote early and often. (”Virginia enacted expansive early voting this year,” Martin helpfully added. “Residents can vote in person or by mail between Sept. 17 and Oct. 30.”)

So why the call to arms? It can’t be because McAuliffe is a re-tread (as Martin acknowledges) who is “not exactly a fresh face who will rally a new generation of voters to the polls.”

It can’t be because even by pro-abortion standards, McAuliffe stands out as an extremist. He even has kind words for State Delegate Kathy Tran’s bill which would have allowed abortion up until the birth—and beyond. The fate of abortion survivors would be left to the tender mercies of the man who tried to kill the baby in the first, in consultation with the mother!

Naw, the explanation is “voter fatigue,” meaning Virginia voters are “drained from the Trump administration’s round-the-clock drama, which they felt more acutely because of their proximity to Washington, where the local news is also national news.”

Trump is, as always, the explanation/excuse for everything.

Biden carried the Commonwealth last year by a whopping ten points. If McAuliffe loses, second-guessing and “what just happened?” will make for great after-the-fact excuse mongering.

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