Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy challenged Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre directly during Wednesday&#8217;s daily briefing, asking whether President Joe Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-calls-failed-virginia-dem-candidate-terry-mcauliffe-the-real-governor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent comments</a> amounted to joking about election denial.
Doocy referenced Biden&#8217;s recent rally in Manassas, Virginia — during which he referred to failed Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe as &#8220;the real governor&#8221; despite his 2021 loss to Republican Glenn Youngkin — and pressed Jean-Pierre for a response.
&#8220;Is election denying a joke now?&#8221; Doocy asked.
&#8220;What do you mean?&#8221; Jean-Pierre asked. &#8220;You have to say more than just to make a random statement.&#8221;
&#8220;Why did the President say, &#8216;Hello Virginia and the real governor, Terry McAuliffe&#8217;?&#8221; Doocy clarified.
&#8220;He was making a joke about Terry Mc — he was making a joke,&#8221; Jean-Pierre relied.
&#8220;What’s the joke?&#8221; Doocy asked.
&#8220;He was — I mean, if you play it back, it&#8217;s clearly that the president was making a joke,&#8221;  Jean-Pierre said again.
&#8220;What’s the joke?&#8221; Doocy asked again, to which Jean-Pierre said, &#8220;He was making a joke about McAuliffe&#8217;s previous term as governor.&#8221;
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Doocy: “How are guys going to convince people, though, that this idea of denying election results is very bad if President Biden is going out —”
KJP: “How is he —”
Doocy: “— and making jokes like this?”
KJP: “— okay. He did not deny. He did not deny it. He congratulated… <a href="https://t.co/vfJPCxrkLc">pic.twitter.com/vfJPCxrkLc</a>
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&#8220;How are guys going to convince people, though, that this idea of denying election results is very bad if President Biden is going out —&#8221; Doocy continued to object. &#8220;— and making jokes like this?&#8221;
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&#8220;He did not deny. He did not deny it. He congratulated Governor Youngkin,&#8221; Jean-Pierre said of the 2021 special election. &#8220;Matter of fact, uh, when he won his election, he did it out of the gate — out of the gate. Really. Truly. He — he congratulated the governor and not only that — we have had opportunities to work closely with the governor and — over the past couple of years, and, you know, this is a President that works across the aisle. We&#8217;ve seen that many times, and he was making a joke.&#8221;

Biden

‘Is Election Denying A Joke Now?’: Peter Doocy Corners KJP Over Biden’s ‘Real Governor’ Crack

'Is Election Denying A Joke Now?': Peter Doocy Corners KJP Over Biden's 'Real Governor' Crack

Joe Biden

Karine Jean-Pierre

Media

Peter Doocy

Politics

Terry McAuliffe

President Joe Biden referred to Terry McAuliffe — the Democratic gubernatorial candidate who lost to Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin in 2021 — as “the real governor” of Virginia on Tuesday. 
Biden held a campaign rally with his supporters in Manassas, Virginia, which was the president’s first joint campaign event for the 2024 cycle with Vice President Kamala Harris, CBS News <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERhujitvi8I" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The president’s speech focused on protecting abortion rights and hitting Trump for his role in the reversal of Roe v. Wade. As Biden took the stage, he pointed out McAuliffe in the crowd, calling him “the real governor.” 
“Hello, Virginia,” Biden began his remarks. “And the real governor, Terry McAuliffe.” 
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Joe Biden: “Hello, Virginia, and the real governor, Terry McAuliffe.” <a href="https://t.co/hygNHhP52g">pic.twitter.com/hygNHhP52g</a>
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Youngkin <a href="https://www.politico.com/election-results/2021/virginia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defeated</a> McAuliffe by more than 60,000 votes in 2021, becoming the first Republican governor elected in Virginia since 2009. McAuliffe previously served as governor of the state from 2014 to 2018. Biden’s remark at the campaign event on Tuesday confused politicians and political commentators, who pointed out that the president has focused his 2024 campaign on rehashing Trump’s denial of Biden’s 2020 election victory. 
Just in the past month, Biden has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-compares-trump-and-his-supporters-to-defeated-confederates-in-south-carolina-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">compared</a> Trump and his supporters to “defeated Confederates” and called the former president a threat to “democracy.” In remarks addressing the anniversary of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, Biden even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-celebrates-hundreds-of-prison-sentences-for-trump-supporters-3-years-after-january-6-capitol-storming" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrated</a> the prosecution of hundreds of Trump’s supporters who stormed the capitol in protest of the election results. 
Youngkin responded to Biden&#8217;s comment on Tuesday, <a href="https://twitter.com/GlennYoungkin/status/1749920568218980600?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writing</a>, “Mr. President, I’m right here.” 
Some political commentators said the president’s remark was “bizarre” and “monstrously stupid.” 
“This is monstrously stupid, even if intended as a silly joke,” CNN contributor and The Dispatch Editor-in-Chief Jonah Goldberg <a href="https://twitter.com/JonahDispatch/status/1749923014987124874?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “If you’re going to make the other side’s election denial central to your campaign, the last thing you want to do is this nonsense.”
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“Bizarre,” <a href="https://twitter.com/Alyssafarah/status/1749930930540540311?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump aide and current co-host of “The View.” “When you’re running on ‘defending democracy’ jokes about elections being stolen are *not* funny at all.”
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonMiyaresVA/status/1749918591317577754?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a>, “So Joe Biden is an election denier?” 
Biden has ramped up his attacks on Trump and his supporters in recent weeks as he begins his re-election campaign with all signs pointing to a Biden-Trump rematch. Trump, the GOP frontrunner, has won the first two contests in the Republican primary, taking Iowa easily last week and cruising to a victory in New Hampshire on Tuesday. 
Biden <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/23/us/elections/results-new-hampshire-democratic-primary.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">won</a> the New Hampshire primary easily on Tuesday night over Congressman Dean Phillips (D-MN) and self-help author Marianne Williamson. The president relied on a write-in campaign in the state after the Democratic National Committee made South Carolina the first state in the party&#8217;s primary. 
General election polls show Trump leading Biden by around three points, <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Real Clear Politics average.

Joe Biden/Terry McAuliffe

Biden Calls Failed Virginia Dem Candidate Terry McAuliffe ‘The Real Governor’

Biden Calls Failed Virginia Dem Candidate Terry McAuliffe 'The Real Governor'

Glenn Youngkin

governor

Virginia

A Virginia socialite who had recently divorced a federal judge was arrested after allegedly negotiating with an undercover FBI agent to molest an eight-year-old girl and discussing &#8220;taboo parenting,&#8221; <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.253246/gov.uscourts.dcd.253246.1.1_1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">court records</a> show.
Eleanor Hunton Hoppe of Charlottesville grew up as the daughter of a prominent attorney whose name is part of the law firm now known as Hunton, Andrews, Kurth, which has been paid millions of dollars by Virginia school systems, including for a highly aggressive defense against allegations of sex abuse.
Hoppe went on to marry Joel Hoppe, a magistrate judge with whom she is now divorced and who has petitioned for full custody of the couple&#8217;s two young daughters based on the horrifying charges. Hoppe is currently being held in D.C. jail after being indicted on <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.253696/gov.uscourts.dcd.253696.9.0_1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charges</a> of coercion and enticement; attempted transportation with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity; and distribution of child pornography.
&#8220;Putting her to bed and waking her up to do a few extra things will be so fun,&#8221; Hoppe wrote in a text message to the undercover agent referring to a planned meeting between her, the undercover agent and his purported daughter, according to charging documents.
The documents say Hoppe sent the agent a video and photos of young girls being raped. She also allegedly texted that “a great thing to do is to wake her up by trying new things…that hazy/ dreamlike state is perfect to introduce a variety of new things…especially with someone to help with positioning Her body.”
&#8220;If I were you, I’d start building up Thursday telling her that you know it’s gonna be super fun we’re gonna hang out with an old friend of yours. It’s going to be like the best night ever blah blah blah and then once I get there, obviously, it will take a slight turn,&#8221; she allegedly wrote.
When confronted by authorities at a hotel in Warrington, Virginia, where she had expected to meet the eight-year-old girl, Hoppe&#8211;who has volunteered with the Big Brothers Big Sisters program&#8211;claimed she was there &#8220;in order to help the UC&#8217;s child. Hoppe admitted that she had not alerted the police nor any law enforcement authorities regarding her communications with the UC, his location, or the fact that he was sexually abusing his daughter. Hoppe admitted to distributing the images of child sexual abuse material to the UC and stated that she did so to keep the UC talking,&#8221; court documents allege.
A search of her car found lubricant and a pink robe, the documents add.
Her judge ex-husband finalized a divorce with Hoppe in 2021 after alleging that she had repeatedly engaged in extramarital sex with men and women. The arrest, which occurred March 21, was first reported by local news outlet <a href="https://www.wric.com/news/crime/charlottesville-woman-charged-with-child-sexual-abuse-told-police-she-was-trying-to-help/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WRIC</a> last week and also by the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11981565/High-society-child-sex-abuser.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Mail</a>.
The Hunton family has been a prominent and powerful political family in Virginia for centuries, with Eppa Hunton II serving as a Democrat senator. In 1901, Eppa Hunton III founded the law firm that went on to become Hunton Andrews Kurth. Hoppe&#8217;s father, Eppa Hunton V, represented her in her divorce, though court filings list only a public defender in the federal case she is facing in the District of Columbia.
The Hunton Andrews Kurth firm is tightly aligned with Democrat interests, once employing former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, and representing school districts against parents. It tried to take one sexual assault case all the way to the Supreme Court, attempting to set a precedent that one judge said would amount to granting school systems <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/school-board-association-asks-supreme-court-for-what-judge-calls-one-free-rape" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;one free rape&#8221;</a> before there was accountability.
The firm defended against a class-action suit that said the Fairfax County Public Schools <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/terry-mcauliffe-law-firm-fighting-parents-of-special-needs-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">physically abused special-needs children</a>, and the law firm even hounded a mom who received documents under the Freedom of Information Act showing how much Hunton had been paid by schools, with Hunton attorney Ryan M. Bates repeatedly coming to her home and demanding that she destroy the documents, the mom previously told The Daily Wire.
Hunton Andrews is currently mounting a scorched-earth campaign against a young woman who says that she was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-mcauliffe-linked-law-firm-fighting-virginia-student-who-said-she-was-gang-raped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">repeatedly raped</a> on her Fairfax County middle school campus as a 12-year-old and that she was slashed with a knife, burned with a lighter, anally penetrated, and gang raped. The firm challenged the right of the alleged victim to use a pseudonym in court, even as it hid the names of school officials who allegedly engaged in wrongdoing.
This week, Bates reportedly sought to subject the alleged rape victim to invasive physical exams, even though the alleged rape took place more than 10 years ago, and a rape kit at the time found evidence consistent with her reports. A social worker wrote that &#8220;gynecological exams in victims of sexual trauma can make victims feel like they are being <a href="https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fairfax_county/school-board-lawyers-demand-invasive-pelvic-exam-of-victim-kate-over-a-decade-after-alleged/article_cf7ce19c-de26-11ed-bde3-73b28ba15a78.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raped again</a>.&#8221;

Scion Of Law Firm Defending Schools In Sex Abuse Cases Is Arrested In Child Abuse Sting

Child Sex Abuse

Crime

Education

Parental Rights in Education

A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/virginia">Virginia</a> school district turned a blind eye to horrific <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/human-trafficking">sexual abuse</a> in a middle school in 2012, with staff members showing more compassion for an alleged attacker than for the victim, a new court filing alleges.
The allegations have come to light a decade later because the victim waited until she was an adult to sue and the case has been in the courts for the last three years. The explosive claims against Fairfax County Public Schools were revealed in a newly filed amended complaint and paint a disturbing picture of gang activity and sex trafficking in the area.
The events occurred when the girl, identified in court papers as B.R., was a 12-year-old student at Rachel Carson Middle School. One of her alleged attackers was an eighth grader called only C.K. in court papers, while other alleged attackers were unknown men who allegedly gang raped her in a closet in the school after C.K. bragged that he was grooming her for &#8220;friends&#8221; who would &#8220;make a lot of money&#8221; off of her, the complaint says.
The complaint says that C.K. waited for B.R. at the bus stop after school, brandished a knife, and “led Plaintiff to a secluded nearby area outside where he wrestled Plaintiff to the ground, held her there against her will, removed her clothing, and forced Plaintiff… to perform oral sex.” Similar events occurred on a near-daily basis for several days, until the girl&#8217;s mother heard a voicemail message in which her daughter&#8217;s tormentor crudely threatened to sodomize her, according to the complaint.
Although it was before the alleged gang rape and the girl had not yet told her parents the extent of the abuse she had allegedly endured, her parents went to school officials in February of 2012 to complain of persistent sexual harassment in the school halls, the voicemail from C.K., and so claim that C.K. had stolen $50 from B.R. Officials allegedly brushed her complaint aside.
“Assistant Principal S.T. told Plaintiff and her parents that C.K. ‘had a very hard life and been in enough trouble,’ and asked Plaintiff and her mother why they were trying to ‘ruin a young boy’s life,’” the complaint states.
Assistant Principal S.T. then visited C.K.&#8217;s home, where his mother told him that he was &#8220;borrowing&#8221; the $50. After that conversation, the assistant principal told B.R.&#8217;s parents that it appeared to be a &#8220;boy girl thing&#8221; in which B.R. was &#8220;sexually active&#8221; with C.K. The assistant principal returned the $50 while laughing that B.R. should take it back before she spent it on Christmas shopping herself, the complaint says.
The abuse got worse after she went to school officials, culminating in a student dragging her into a closet in the school building after school where she was &#8220;raped by three unknown males (Mike Roes 1 – 3) consistent with the modus operandi of human and sexual traffickers in the Fairfax community,&#8221; the lawsuit alleged.
In February 2012, B.R.&#8217;s parents began keeping her home from school, and she disclosed the full extent of the alleged sexual abuse. On March 5, her parents went to the police and spoke with Detective Fred Chambers – the former School Resource Officer for the middle school &#8212; who directed her to take a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (“SANE”) evaluation which “revealed she suffered contusions inside her anus thereby corroborating her report of rape and sodomy,” the suit says.
Yet the detective went on to accuse the girl of making a false rape accusation &#8220;despite his knowledge of corroborating evidence,” the complaint says. School officials began investigating the alleged victim, the complaint claims.
“Under the guise of a school investigation, and in the course and scope of his authority as principal of RCMS, Principal A.F. visited Plaintiff’s elementary school to dig up ‘dirt’ on Plaintiff,&#8221; it says.
Although little is known of the assailants alleged to have gang-raped the girl, the events happened at the same time that  <a href="https://www.npr.org/2011/11/14/142300731/gangs-enter-new-territory-with-sex-trafficking">NPR</a> was reporting that the gang MS-13 was forcing children into prostitution in Fairfax. In 2014, FCPS warned of sex trafficking in a page on its website that included a <a href="https://www.fcps.edu/node/32026">video</a> saying one gang alone had attempted to recruit more than 800 girls in the county.
FCPS had a pattern of downplaying sexual misconduct so that the school system&#8217;s statistics looked better, the complaint says. &#8220;In effect, FCSB had a policy, custom, and practice of sweeping student-on-student sexual violence and sexual harassment under the rug,&#8221; it says.
Schools also required to disclose certain incidents in a statewide database. Loudoun County acknowledged <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-loudoun-schools-did-not-record-multiple-alleged-sexual-assaults-over-a-period-of-years-despite-state-law-records-show">failing to report</a> to the database properly after The Daily Wire pointed out that both the infamous bathroom rape and an earlier well-known locker room incident were missing.
In the 2011-2012 school year, when the Rachel Carson complaints were filed, FCPS reported <a href="https://www.doe.virginia.gov/statistics_reports/school_climate/discipline_crime_violence/11-12_annual_report.pdf">zero</a> sexual assaults and five sexual batteries across its 180,000 students. In the 2018-19 school year, the most recent before coronavirus disruptions, FCPS reported <a href="https://www.doe.virginia.gov/statistics_reports/school_climate/index.shtml">10 incidents</a> of &#8220;sexual battery against student.&#8221;
FCPS did not return a request for comment.

School System Downplayed Alleged Sexual Misconduct Against 12-Year Old, Citing ‘Hard Life’ Of Suspect, Suit Claims

Fairfax Schools Downplayed Rachel Carson Middle School Sexual Misconduct, Citing 'Hard Life' Of Suspect, Suit Claims

Fairfax County

Loudoun County

Sexual Assault

The stunning election of political novice Glenn Youngkin, which turned the deep blue state of Virginia decidedly purple, testifies to the power of one issue: the rights of parents to educate their own children. By late October, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/oct-20-26-2021-washington-post-schar-school-virginia-poll/1ad60e58-0bc2-404d-80e6-0f8ff5fba246/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2">polls</a> showed that voters considered education the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginia-governors-race-education-top-issue-voters">most important issue</a> in the race, and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe impaled himself on his own tongue by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-terry-mcauliffe-i-dont-think-parents-should-be-telling-schools-what-they-should-teach">saying</a>, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” But while spin doctors may wish to write off Virginia as an anomalous outcome based on a verbal gaffe, the reality is that education has snowballed in importance for more than a year as parents try to make political elites hear and respond to their voices rather than the financial might of teachers unions.
The epicenter of this grassroots revolt against the public education establishment proved as unlikely as Youngkin’s victory itself. Loudoun County, Virginia, is the <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/slideshows/richest-counties-in-america?slide=16">wealthiest</a> county in the United States, with a median household income of <a href="https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/loudouncountyvirginia">$142,299</a>, and only 3% of its citizens living in poverty. Nearly two-thirds of Loudoun County is <a href="https://www.loudoun.gov/Blog.aspx?CID=30">fully vaccinated</a> against COVID-19, and 61% of county residents over the age of 25 have at least a bachelor’s degree. The New York Times might describe it as a “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marthas-vineyard-residents-who-justify-obamas-b-day-bash-sophisticated-vaccinated-crowd">sophisticated, vaccinated crowd</a>.” And in 2020, Joe Biden <a href="https://historical.elections.virginia.gov/elections/view/144567/">carried</a> Loudoun County by 26 points. With apologies to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jussie-smollett-insists-he-was-set-up-says-he-has-two-new-witnesses-to-refuse-hoax-claims">Jussie Smollett</a>, this ain’t MAGA country. Nonetheless, in the last 10 months, the affluent D.C. suburb has become a microcosm of the battle raging at public school boards across the nation.
Following the death of George Floyd, Loudoun County Public Schools spent <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-county-spends-nearly-500g-on-critical-race-theory-programs-for-schools">half a million dollars</a> on racial consultants and subjected all employees to <a href="https://www.lcps.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&amp;ModuleInstanceID=291002&amp;ViewID=7b97f7ed-8e5e-4120-848f-a8b4987d588f&amp;RenderLoc=0&amp;FlexDataID=355860&amp;PageID=224810">mandatory</a> training in the “Equity in the Center” curriculum.
Then parents began to see and hear snippets of the curriculum that dovetailed with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-is-critical-race-theory-breaking-down-the-ideology-thats-hitting-schools-across-the-country">Critical Race Theory</a>, a controversial, quasi-Marxist ideology that teaches that American institutions remain mired in “systemic racism,” which alone is responsible for all disparities between racial groups. One concerned parent <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/loudoun-county-mom-6-year-old-born-evil-because-white">told</a> the school board, “My 6-year-old somberly came to me and asked me if she was born evil because she was a white person,” based on “something she learned in a history lesson at school.”
Rather than deal with the complaints outright, educators chose to gaslight parents about the contents of the school curriculum and attempt to infiltrate and thwart the opposition. “We’ve been saying for months that we don’t teach Critical Race Theory,” <a href="https://wjla.com/features/i-team/critical-race-theory-in-disguise-equity-plan-has-loudoun-county-parents-at-odds">said</a> interim superintendent Scott Zeigler in May. And as The Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-teachers-target-parents-critical-race-theory-hacking?ref=patrick.net">reported</a> last March:
<blockquote>A group of current and former teachers and others in Loudoun County, Virginia, compiled a lengthy list of parents suspected of disagreeing with school system actions, including its teaching of controversial racial concepts — with a stated purpose in part to “infiltrate,” use “hackers” to silence parents’ communications, and “expose these people publicly.” … [T]he county’s prosecutor, narrowly elected with the help of <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/11/13/soros-prosecutors-virginia/">$845,000</a> in cash from George Soros, appears to be a member of the Facebook group.</blockquote>
The fact that the county’s elected officials chose to take an adversarial position toward them, instead of honoring their wishes, told parents they were in for a fight.
That fact became clearer as the debate over education turned from the controversial to the pornographic. As with other places around the country, Virginia’s parents learned that public school libraries contained hardcore depictions of sex and a blasé indifference toward (or understated approval of) homosexual pedophilia. As Rosiak <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-mom-reads-graphic-gay-porn-found-in-school-library-to-school-board">reported</a> at The Daily Wire in September, one Loudoun County mother read aloud from the books:
<blockquote>“I can’t wait to have your c*** in my mouth. I am going to give you the blowjob of your life, and then I want you inside me.”
“What if I told you I touched another guy’s d***? What if I told you I sucked it? I was ten years old, but it’s true. I sucked Doug Goble’s d***, the real estate guy, and he sucked mine too.”</blockquote>
Photos of the insides of the books showed illustrations so graphic that, if an adult gave them to a teenager, he could conceivably be charged with <a href="https://lawrina.com/blog/contributing-to-the-delinquency-of-a-minor/">contributing to the delinquency of a minor</a>. Rather than apologize, members of the school board interrupted her and then cut off her microphone. Pedophilia may have a platform in Loudoun County public schools, but parents don’t. Furthermore, McAuliffe boasted in a debate with Youngkin that he vetoed two bills that would have required schools to notify parents if their children would be subjected to sexually explicit material.
The attempt to blame the victims reached its apogee as the National School Boards Association contacted the Biden administration’s Justice Department and asked the federal government to investigate parents who allegedly made “threats” to parents. Among the most widely circulated images was an agitated father named Scott Smith being arrested at a June 22 school board meeting. The legacy media presented Smith as a hotheaded perpetrator and would-be abuser of public officials. The reality turned that depiction on its head. As Rosiak <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says">reported</a> at The Daily Wire:
<blockquote>What people did not know is that weeks prior on May 28, Smith says, a boy allegedly wearing a skirt entered a girls’ bathroom at nearby Stone Bridge High School, where he sexually assaulted Smith’s ninth-grade daughter. 
Juvenile records are sealed, but Smith’s attorney Elizabeth Lancaster told The Daily Wire that a boy was charged with two counts of forcible sodomy – one count of anal sodomy and one count of forcible fellatio – related to an incident that day at that school. </blockquote>
Although Zeigler had been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-school-board-was-informed-of-alleged-sexual-assault-the-day-it-happened-report">informed</a> of the incident — for which the “gender-fluid” perpetrator was subsequently <a href="https://wjla.com/features/i-team/teen-suspect-found-guilty-in-loudoun-county-public-school-stone-bridge-high-bathroom-assault">convicted</a> — he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-school-board-blasted-over-daily-wire-sex-assault-report-parents-demand-resignations-end-this-nightmare">told</a> the public that he did not have “any record of assaults occurring in our restrooms.” (He later apologized for the “misleading” report.) At the time, the school board was preparing a controversial “bathroom” policy allowing males to use the restrooms that they feel correspond to their gender identity. The boy, meanwhile, went to another school, where he allegedly victimized another student.
As the campaign pulled into its last month, McAuliffe led Youngkin by 2.5 points, <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/governor/virginia/">according</a> to FiveThirtyEight.com; Youngkin would not take the lead until October 28. Still, Terry McAuliffe took not a backward step. His final campaign stop featured Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, the nation’s second-largest teachers union.
Exit polls taken by The Washington Post on election day showed that voters ranked education as the second most important issue in the election — and Youngkin led McAuliffe by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2021/exit-polls-virginia-governor/#h-Y5IF6NZDJZFT3PK2ZNXGJRNMMQ">11 points</a> (55% to 44%). Voters ranked only the economy as more important (and Youngkin enjoyed an even bigger lead over McAuliffe on that issue).
The ultimate poll, the election, revealed the political power of the issue of public education in tangible ways. Last November, President Donald Trump barely won one of every three ballots cast in Loudoun County. On Tuesday, Glenn Youngkin won <a href="https://results.elections.virginia.gov/vaelections/2021%20November%20General/Site/Locality/LOUDOUN_COUNTY/Index.html">44%</a> of the county. Youngkin promised to listen to parents, the end CRT, to let moms and dads decide whether sexually explicit material is appropriate for their children, and to make public schools a genuinely safe space. Youngkin improved on Trump’s performance in every corner of the state, and what appeared to be an easy victory last year turned into a shocking political upset.
Yet it would appear that the Democrats have learned nothing and forgotten nothing from the off-year election. Their denial has persisted even after Youngkin’s underdog victory. Democratic National Committee chairman Jaime Harrison insisted that Virginia’s schools do not teach CRT, which amounts to nothing more than “a racist dog whistle.” Likewise, MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace warned her fellow panelists that “the real ominous thing is that Critical Race Theory, which isn’t real, turned the suburbs 15 points to the Trump-insurrection-endorsed Republican.&#8221; But as Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/dnc-chair-youngkin-talking-critical-race-theory-whistle">reported</a>, “The phrase ‘Critical Race Theory’ <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginia-dept-of-education-website-promotes-crt-despite-mcauliffe-claims-its-never-been-taught-there">appears</a> on the state Department of Education website and reports have revealed that the Virginia Department of Education recommended a book called, ‘We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom’ in March 2020 that <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginia-promotes-book-telling-teachers-to-embrace-critical-race-theory-mcauliffe-says-crt-isnt-being-taught">told teachers</a> they ‘must embrace theories such as critical race theory.&#8221;
Parents turned the 2021 Virginia governor’s race into a referendum on education — and on an arrogant political-educational complex’s refusal to cater to the desires of its employers, the parents of the Old Dominion. The more they learned about their children’s curricula, and their leaders’ indifference to their desires, the greater the backlash became.
If Republicans hope to take back the ground lost in 2020, they can begin by educating American parents about education.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

How The Virginia Governor’s Race Was Won

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I woke up Wednesday morning so grateful that my state, Virginia, had voted out abortion extremism. Abortion activists were supposed to sweep Terry McAuliffe back to the governor&#8217;s mansion. McAuliffe <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/22/virginia-governors-race-abortion-schools-take-center-stage-in-election-ad-wars-.html">spent millions</a> of dollars on ads blasting Glenn Youngkin for being pro-life and brought in outside speakers, including former President Obama, to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/obama-stumps-virginia-candidate-race-seen-referendum-biden-2021-10-23/">campaign</a> on the issue of abortion. Instead of keeping Virginia blue, these efforts may have propelled Youngkin to victory. The <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-voter-analysis-virginia-governors-race">5%</a> of voters who said abortion was their top issue in the 2021 election backed Youngkin by a 12-percentage-point margin.
Some policy analysts seem shocked by how abortion radicalism blew up in McAuliffe&#8217;s face, but they shouldn’t be. <a href="https://www.kofc.org/en/resources/news-room/polls/american-abortion-opinions-remain-consistent.pdf">More than three quarters</a> of the American people support significant restrictions on abortion and are making their voices heard at the polls. Instead of listening to them, McAuliffe pandered to an extreme base that makes up a tiny portion of the electorate.
Protecting the most vulnerable is a winning issue, it should be a bipartisan issue, and Youngkin&#8217;s success paves the way for a wave of pro-life candidates in 2022 to win in purple and blue states by calling out the extreme pro-abortion views of their opponents.
To be clear, McAuliffe made an intentional, strategic decision to emphasize abortion. He thought he could motivate his base and increase turnout, but most voters <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/republicans-should-hammer-democrats-on-abortion/">didn’t agree</a> with what he was saying.
Virginians had recently experienced the radical extremism of Del. Kathy Tran when she <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/outrage-after-virginia-abortion-bill-sponsor-admits-pregnancies-could-be-terminated-up-until-birth">introduced</a> a bill allowing abortion until birth. Gov. Ralph Northam, while defending the bill, even <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/31/politics/ralph-northam-third-trimester-abortion/index.html">said</a>, &#8220;The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that&#8217;s what the mother and the family desired. And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.&#8221; The governor seemed to be endorsing infanticide, and even some Democrats who had originally supported the bill <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-co-sponsor-of-late-term-abortion-bill-apologizes-says-she-did-not-read-the-bill">withdrew</a> their support.
Instead of backing away from these radical views, McAuliffe <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/09/terry-mcauliffe-wont-say-whether-hed-veto-radical-abortion-bills/">committed to enshrining</a> abortion in the state constitution and <a href="https://www.wsls.com/news/politics/2021/09/17/mcauliffe-youngkin-clash-over-abortion-covid-in-1st-debate/">promised</a> in a debate to make it easier for doctors to conduct late-term abortions. He has <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/apr/09/terry-mcauliffe/mcauliffe-does-full-flop-late-term-abortion-bill/">flip-flopped</a> on whether he would have vetoed Tran’s bill, but his own words betrayed his support for equivalent measures. A vote for McAuliffe was a vote for four more years of Northam&#8217;s policies.
While McAuliffe spread <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/14/mcauliffes-claim-that-glenn-youngkin-wants-ban-abortion/">misinformation</a>, Youngkin remained consistent throughout the race. He <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/pro-life-group-endorses-youngkin-after-he-says-abortion-ban-virginia-appropriate-1630393">promised</a> to support pro-life laws while <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/now/mcauliffe-warns-against-youngkin-apos-005904235.html">rebutting</a> his opponent’s fear-mongering tactics.
McAuliffe and his campaign missed what had become obvious to many Virginians in recent months: abortion extremism doesn’t sell. Those attending the <a href="https://www.wric.com/news/march-for-life-returns-to-virginia-capitol-as-abortion-rights-are-on-the-ballot-in-statewide-elections/">Virginia March for Life</a> in September could sense momentum building for pro-life candidates. McAuliffe, on the other hand, did nothing to appeal to moderates on the issue, even <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/terry-mcauliffe-campaigns-at-abortion-clinic-in-virginia/">campaigning</a> at an abortion clinic.
Exit polling shows that McAuliffe&#8217;s doubling down on abortion failed to gain him support and potentially cost him the election. <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/election-day-results-2021-virginia-governor-youngkin/">According to CBS</a>, “75% of voters who think abortion should be legal in most cases support McAuliffe, but Youngkin gets stronger support — 85% — of those who think it should illegal.”
Youngkin’s victory shows how future pro-life candidates can prevail in hotly contested races. Media criticism sometimes causes candidates to back away from their pro-life views, but Youngkin’s success should show candidates that they can win running on pro-life issues in 2022.
The views expressed in this piece are the author&#8217;s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Jeanne Mancini is the president of the March for Life.

McAuliffe’s Defeat Shows Abortion Extremism Doesn’t Win

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President Joe Biden refused to take any ownership in his party getting blown out in Virginia&#8217;s elections on Tuesday night when asked about the matter during a press conference on Wednesday, and he suggested that it was going to be harder to win moving forward because Donald Trump is not on the ballot.
Biden did not dispute the outcome of the elections, saying that &#8220;we all have an obligation to accept the legitimacy of these elections.&#8221;
&#8220;I was talking to Terry to congratulate him today,&#8221; Biden said, referring to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, who lost to Republican Glenn Youngkin. &#8220;He got 600,000 more votes than any Democrat ever has gotten. We brought out every Democrat [inaudible] there was. More votes than ever has been cast for a Democratic incumbent — I mean, not incumbent — a Democrat running for governor. And no governor in Virginia has ever won when he is of the same — where he or she is the same party as the sitting president.”
Biden admitted that the American people were &#8220;upset&#8221; about a lot of the things that are happening under his watch, including things like rising gas prices.
When a reporter noted that Biden had won the state by 10 points just last year, Biden responded, &#8220;I was running against Donald Trump.&#8221;
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<blockquote>REPORTER: As leader of the Democratic Party, how much responsibility do you take for the dismal results in Virginia and beyond last night? 
  
JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT: Well, look, yesterday reminded me of — that one of the scared rights we have is to be able to go out and cast our votes. And remember that we all have an obligation to accept the legitimacy of these elections. 
  
I was talking to Terry to congratulate him today. He got 600,000 more votes than any Democrat ever has gotten. We brought out every Democrat [inaudible] there was. More votes than ever has been cast for a Democratic incumbent — I mean, not incumbent — a Democrat running for governor. And no governor in Virginia has ever won when he is of the same — where he or she is the same party as the sitting president. 
  
What I do know is — I do know that people want us to get things done. They want us to get things done. And that’s why I’m continuing to push very hard for the Democratic Party to move along and pass my infrastructure bill and my Build Back Better bill. 
  
I think if we — look, think about what we — what we’re talking about here. People are upset and uncertain about a lot of things — from COVID, to school, to jobs, to a whole range of things, and the cost of a gallon of gasoline. 
  
And so, if I’m able to pass — sign into law my Build Back Better initiative, I’m in a position where you’re going to see a lot of those things ameliorated quickly and swiftly. And so that has to be done. 
  
REPORTER: Mr. President — Mr. President, given what you’ve said, do you take some responsibility? And do you think that Terry McAuliffe would have won if your agenda had passed before Election Day? 
  
BIDEN: Well, I think we should have — it should have passed before Election Day. But I’m not sure that I would be able to have changed the number of very conservative folks who turned out in the red districts who were Trump voters. But maybe. Maybe. 
  
REPORTER: You won the state by 10 points, Mr. President. 
  
BIDEN: No, I — I know we did. But I — we also — I was running against Donald Trump.</blockquote>

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Biden Refuses To Own GOP Blowout In Virginia, Called To ‘Congratulate’ Democrat Candidate Who Lost

In the aftermath of the victory of GOP gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin in Virginia over Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe, former Democrat congresswoman and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard cheered the results, tweeting, “McAuliffe’s loss is a victory for all Americans. Why? Because it was a resounding rejection of efforts to divide us by race, the stripping of parental rights, and arrogant, deaf leaders. This benefits us all.”
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McAuliffe’s loss is a victory for all Americans. Why? Because it was a resounding rejection of efforts to divide us by race, the stripping of parental rights, and arrogant, deaf leaders. This benefits us all.
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Gabbard has had no misgivings attacking the Biden administration; in October she <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-the-american-people-are-being-lied-to-by-the-biden-administration/">slammed</a> them, saying:
<blockquote>The faith and trust that the American people need to have in our leaders is dropping every day. The Department of Homeland Security Secretary recently told Congress our borders are secure. This is what he said, this kind of bold-faced lie whether it has to do with domestic issues or foreign policy issues.</blockquote>
“We&#8217;ve seen this with Afghanistan and the tragically botched withdrawal of our troops and Americans out of Afghanistan, when people are being lied to, the American people are being lied to, it is revealing of the arrogance, and the self-serving nature of leaders who are in power in this country,” she continued. “And the disrespect, the disrespect that they have for the American people, and it&#8217;s why people are losing faith and trust in those leaders. If we have leaders who respect the people, then the people will respect our leaders. If we have leaders who trust the American people, we will trust our leaders. And that&#8217;s the problem here is we don&#8217;t have leaders who have that trust and respect and who therefore put themselves ahead of the interests of the people.”
Gabbard has <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-warns-about-story-boiling-beneath-news-cycle-a-threat-to-our-country-and-our-democracy/">attacked</a> the elitism of Democrats as recently as September, when she was asked about special counsel John Durham&#8217;s criminal investigation into the origins of the Russia probe. Fox News’ Bret Baier asked, “Your thoughts as we&#8217;re starting to get this Durham investigation and what that means?”
“Confirms what I&#8217;ve known to be true, which is that you have the power elite, people like Hillary Clinton, those around her working with the media, the deep state in order to bring down the destruction and downfall of anyone that they deem to be a threat to their power,” Gabbard said. “Outsiders, people like me, people like Donald Trump, doesn&#8217;t matter, Democrat or Republican, if they identify, hey, this is someone who&#8217;s not going to toe the line, this is someone who&#8217;s not going to follow kind of the establishment way of things that are accepted, they pose a threat and we will do, they will do all they can to silence or censor or cancel what they view to be a threat, and so this is bigger than than about me or Trump or anyone else.”
She added, “This is actually a threat to our country and our democracy the arrogance that these people have in thinking they have the right to manipulate the American people, what they view, what they hear, what they see, all to preserve their own selfish interest, not caring at all about the impact on the country, the impact of the American people or who gets hurt along the way.”
In January, Gabbard slammed the Democratic Party after the party decided to remove gendered language from the House of Representatives. Asked whether the move empowered women, she <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/democrat-tulsi-gabbard-blasts-her-party-for-removing-gendered-language-the-height-of-hypocrisy/">responded</a>:
<blockquote>It absolutely does the very opposite of that, and it&#8217;s the height of hypocrisy for people who claim to be the champions of rights for women to deny the very biological existence of women, and this recent rule change that the House just actually voted and passed on today that you were talking about, removing references to, you know, mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, from congressional rules and administration, it&#8217;s mind-blowing because it shows just how out of touch with reality and the struggles of everyday Americans people in Congress are.
But also, it shows that, you know, their first act as this new Congress could have been to make sure that elderly Americans are able to get the COVID vaccine now alongside frontline health care workers, elderly Americans who have the highest mortality rates from this virus, but instead of doing something that could actually help save people&#8217;s lives, they&#8217;re choosing instead to say, well, you can&#8217;t say mother or father in any of this congressional language. It&#8217;s astounding.</blockquote>

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Tulsi Gabbard Cheers McAuliffe Loss in Virginia: ‘A Victory For All Americans’

Tulsi Gabbard

Former President Donald Trump endorsed Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin not once, but three times.
But Youngkin walked a tightrope throughout the campaign. He accepted the endorsements, but he kept Trump at arm’s length. As his Democratic opponent, Terry McAuliffe, brought in a string of heavy hitters — President Joe Biden (twice), former President Barack Obama, first lady Jill Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris — Youngkin didn’t invite Trump or other national party leaders, and even steered clear of an 11th-hour telephone rally headlined by Trump.
Media reports the day after Youngkin pulled off the win in a state Biden won by more than 10% exactly one year ago are awash with claims that Trump was the decisive factor. Not so.
Exit polls deliver the proof. Just 42% of Virginia voters said they have a favorable view of Trump, while 54% hold an unfavorable view. But Biden’s numbers were the important ones: 45% said they approve of his job, while 54% disapprove. Biden’s approval rating has plunged more at this point in his presidency than any other president since World War II.
So hatred for Trump didn’t drive Democratic voters to the polls this time around, nor does it appear that support for Trump prompted a surge in turnout. Nearly 3 in 10 voters said that they voted for the Republican as “a way to express opposition” to Biden, CNN reported. And even though McAuliffe spent most of his campaign trying to connect Youngkin to Trump, voters just didn’t buy it.
Biden has made a mess of things in just 287 days. Inflation has soared, a supply chain crisis has left store shelves empty, a worker shortage has caused major problems, the southern border catastrophe is still unsolved, and the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan left a decidedly sour taste in voters’ mouths.
But Youngkin ran a race focused on local issues, especially the perceived anti-parent stance on education that exploded in Virginia in the campaign’s final weeks. Those two issues — the economy and education — drove the race, not Trump.
“About one-third of Virginia voters called the economy the most important issue facing the state, placing it ahead of other topics that dominated headlines in the closing days of the race. Just under one-quarter said education is most important, about 15% chose taxes, about 14% chose the COVID-19 pandemic and just about one-tenth chose abortion,” CNN reported.
Biden’s support among Democrats has also plummeted. Just 36% of Democratic voters want Biden to run again in 2024, while half think the country is on the wrong track, according to a recent NPR/PBS News poll.
Voter turnout — a true measure of enthusiasm among the party faithful — was also crucial. Consider these numbers: Biden crushed Trump in Virginia in 2020, winning 54.1% of the vote to Trump’s 44%. That 10.1% winning margin was the largest for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1944 when Franklin D. Roosevelt beat Thomas Dewey in the state 62.4% to 37.4%.
On Tuesday, more than 3.2 million Virginians voted, a 27% increase from 2017, the last election for governor. In that race, Democrat Ralph Northam defeated Republican Ed Gillespie 53.9% to 45%.
But in 2017, just 2,584,906 people voted in the state. This year, with 99% of the vote counted, 3,277,931 state residents cast ballots, according to FiveThirtyEight.
That surge in turnout gave Youngkin the win. He received 1,675,171 votes — a nearly 500,000-vote increase from Gillespie, who got 1,175,731 votes. McAuliffe pulled in 193,585 more votes than Northam — 1,602,760 versus 1,409,175. But it still wasn’t enough.
Exit polls showed independents went heavily for Youngkin.
“Youngkin also carried male voters in this year’s election by a roughly 12-point margin, White women without college degrees by about 50 points and White evangelicals by about 76 points — all broader margins than then-President Donald Trump posted over Joe Biden among those demographics in the 2020 election and than Republican Ed Gillespie posted over his gubernatorial rival in 2017,” CNN reported. “The early exit polling also suggests a slim advantage for Youngkin in the suburbs, an area that shifted toward Democrats during Trump’s presidency.”
So Youngkin’s win delivers a blueprint to the GOP for winning back the House and Senate in the 2022 mid-term elections. Embrace the local issues that most affect your state’s residents — and it’s OK to keep your distance from Trump. While the next national election is still a year away, economists don’t expect things to be much better.
“We’re going to have a whole new crop of Republicans come in and define a new way forward,” Youngkin told supporters the day before the election.
Indeed we are.
Joseph Curl covered the White House for a dozen years and ran the Drudge Report for four years. He can be reached at josephcurl@dailywire.com and on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/josephcurl">@JosephCurl</a>. A version of this article ran previously in The Washington Times.

President Biden Speaks At Campaign Rally For Terry McAuliffe

CURL: Here’s What Really Drove The Vote In Virginia

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Multiple election experts projected on Tuesday night that Republican Glenn Youngkin beat Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia&#8217;s governor&#8217;s race in what many critics say is a backlash to far-left Democrat policies.
Dave Wasserman of the non-partisan Cook Political Report and Decision Desk HQ both have called the race for Youngkin, who is currently leading 51.1% to McAuliffe&#8217;s 48.2% with 95% reporting. Business Insider also <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/virginia-governor-election-terry-mcauliffe-vs-glenn-youngkin-live-results-2021-11">called</a> the race for Youngkin.
During the early morning hours on Wednesday, ABC News, NBC News, CNN, The Associated Press, The New York Times, and MSNBC called the race for Youngkin.
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I&#39;ve seen enough: Glenn Youngkin (R) defeats Terry McAuliffe (D) in the Virginia governor&#39;s race. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/VAGOV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#VAGOV</a>
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BREAKING: Republican Glenn Youngkin wins Virginia governor race, <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NBCNews</a> projects. <a href="https://t.co/3T5a4295CC">https://t.co/3T5a4295CC</a> <a href="https://t.co/q3R9FjdrQ4">pic.twitter.com/q3R9FjdrQ4</a>
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BREAKING: Republican Glenn Youngkin will win the race for Virginia’s governor, <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABC</a> News projects based on analysis of the vote. <a href="https://t.co/cnocUCMjDg">https://t.co/cnocUCMjDg</a> <a href="https://t.co/7XJkPeFWfT">pic.twitter.com/7XJkPeFWfT</a>
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&#8220;Since Virginia went blue for Barack Obama in 2008, Republicans have been on a downhill slide, the pace of which quickened during President Donald Trump’s administration,&#8221; The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/virginia-governor-election-mcauliffe-youngkin-6af9b4e62d27bbc66042e819befe9c45">reported</a>. &#8220;The GOP, which hasn’t won a statewide race in Virginia since 2009, saw its legislative majority melt away.&#8221;
Democrat President Joe Biden claimed on the world stage earlier in the day that McAuliffe was &#8220;gonna win.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re gonna win,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;I think we’re going to win in Virginia.&#8221;
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&quot;We&#39;re gonna win,&quot; President Joe Biden says on the Virginia governor&#39;s race between Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin. <a href="https://t.co/0AbwHW1Jnk">https://t.co/0AbwHW1Jnk</a> <a href="https://t.co/z6uS3vGTc2">pic.twitter.com/z6uS3vGTc2</a>
&mdash; USA TODAY (@USATODAY) <a href="https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/1455620713893801994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Glenn Youngkin Campaigns In Final Days Of Virginia Gubernatorial Election

Republican Glenn Youngkin Wins Governor’s Race In Virginia, Experts Project

The momentum has shifted so dramatically against Terry McAuliffe in Tuesday&#8217;s Virginia governor’s race that numerous establishment media outlets — including CNN and Politico — have called out the Democrat for closing out his campaign with “a lie.”
“Guess how Glenn Youngkin is finishing his campaign?” Terry McAuliffe asked the attendees of his final campaign rally at a Fairfax brewery Monday night. “Glenn Youngkin is doing an event with Donald Trump here in Virginia, where he brought the hatred, the divisiveness that Donald Trump brought to this country. We’re going to put an end to Donald Trump&#8217;s future plans right here in Virginia.”
It’s true that President Donald Trump held an <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/trump-hails-glenn-youngkin-fantastic-guy-last-minute-phone-rally-n1282929">11-minute</a> “tele-rally” by phone on Monday evening, where the 45th president called Youngkin a “fantastic guy.” But Youngkin <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/glenn-youngkin-wont-participate-in-trumps-tele-rally-for-virginia-gubernatorial-race">announced</a> last Saturday that “I’m not going to be engaged in the tele-town hall.”
Surprisingly, a number of legacy media outlets corrected McAuliffe, who has spent weeks trying to regain lost momentum by tying the outsider Republican to Trump.
“TERRY MCAULIFFE wanted GLENN YOUNGKIN and DONALD TRUMP to campaign together so badly that when it didn’t happen, McAuliffe simply invented a Youngkin-Trump event that didn’t exist,” <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/11/02/youngkins-crowds-dwarf-mcauliffes-on-election-eve-494939">said</a> the Politico Playbook this morning. “That was a lie. Trump wasn’t in Virginia and he never campaigned with Youngkin.”
“McAuliffe was desperate to manufacture the fake Trump event,” Politico added, since falling behind in an election many considered a formality in the increasingly blue state.
CNN also fact-checked the McAuliffe claim twice in less than 12 hours. “This is just not true from McAuliffe in Fairfax,’” wrote CNN national political reporter Dan Merica <a href="https://twitter.com/merica/status/1455327273163403270">tweeted</a> on Monday evening. “Youngkin is not ‘doing an event’ with Trump. The former president is calling into a closed press tele-rally.”
“To be clear here, the distinction is that Youngkin did not call into the tele-rally,” Merica <a href="https://twitter.com/merica/status/1455361194450112512">specified</a>.
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To be clear here, the distinction is that Youngkin did not call into the tele-rally.
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On Tuesday morning’s episode of CNN’s “New Day,” Washington correspondent Sunlen Serfaty noted that McAuliffe “falsely” placed Youngkin at the Trump event.
“Now, we did see Democrat Terry McAuliffe, last night in his closing pitch, not deviate whatsoever from the central part of his campaign strategy, which is to tie Republican Glenn Youngkin to the former president,” she said. “And he argued, falsely — claimed last night in his campaign event — he said that Glenn Youngkin was doing an event with the former president,” she said.
“Now, notably, Terry McAuliffe was wrong with his claims there,” Serfaty <a href="https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/nday/date/2021-11-02/segment/01">continued</a>. “The former president did call into this tele-rally in support of Youngkin, but that was a call that Youngkin himself did not participate in, the campaign confirmed to CNN last night.”
Youngkin spent his final night on the campaign trail in Loudoun County, giving an impassioned speech that covered a panoply of local issues. His team also chided McAuliffe for allegedly peppering his media appearances with as many as <a href="https://www.youngkinforgovernor.com/post/15-lies-terry-mcauliffe-told-in-his-latest-interview">15 lies</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/TeamYoungkin/status/1454895347696799745">grasping at straws</a> to tie Youngkin to Donald Trump.
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Live look at Terry McAuliffe&#39;s desperate campaign! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/VAgov?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#VAgov</a> <a href="https://t.co/yglPgK1eM8">pic.twitter.com/yglPgK1eM8</a>
&mdash; Team Youngkin (@TeamYoungkin) <a href="https://twitter.com/TeamYoungkin/status/1454895347696799745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2021</a></blockquote>
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McAuliffe, who left the governor’s mansion due to term limits, had been the heavy favorite to win today’s gubernatorial race until a debate in which McAuliffe <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-terry-mcauliffe-i-dont-think-parents-should-be-telling-schools-what-they-should-teach">said</a>, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” After a year in which teachers unions had refused to teach children in person, demanded mask mandates for children, and foisted controversial and ideologically driver curricula based on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-is-critical-race-theory-breaking-down-the-ideology-thats-hitting-schools-across-the-country">Critical Race Theory</a>, the remark left the Democrat sinking with voters.
Larry Sabato, who has <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/11/01/larry_sabato_white_resistance_made_education_number_one_issue_in_virginia_it_has_to_do_with_race.html">lashed out</a> at Youngkin for an alleged sub rosa racial appeal, changed his projection for the race from “leans Democratic” to “<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/now/sabato-crystal-ball-shifts-virginia-191615843.html">leans Republican</a>.” FiveThirtyEight.com places Youngkin ahead in the polls by a razor-thin <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/governor/virginia/">one percentage point</a>, while RealClear Politics gives the Republican a <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2021/governor/va/virginia_governor_youngkin_vs_mcauliffe-7373.html">two-point lead</a>, still within the margin of error.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Terry McAuliffe Discusses Women’s Health During Campaign For Virginia Governor

‘Desperate’: McAuliffe Caught In ‘Lie’ By CNN, Politico

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A civil rights leader ripped into Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe on Monday, telling <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/civil-rights-leader-condemns-mcauliffes-race-based-teacher-plan-as-racist-and-insulting">Fox News</a> that McAuliffe’s statements regarding the percentage of teachers in Virginia who are white reflect “explicitly and implicitly a racist approach to education.”
Bob Woodson, the president of The Woodson Center who served in the U.S. Air Force before becoming the director of the National Urban League, responded to McAuliffe’s comments at a campaign event Sunday in which he stated:
<blockquote>We got to work hard to diversify our teacher base. Fifty percent of our students are students of color; 80% of the teachers are white, so what I’m going to do for you — we’ll be the first state in America. If you go teach in Virginia for five years in a high-demand area — that could be geographic, it could be course work — we will pay room, board, tuition, any college, any university or any HBCU [historically Black colleges and universities] here in Virginia.</blockquote>
Woodson snapped, “The assumption is that in order to recruit more black teachers that you’ve got to subsidize candidates in order for them to teach, they’re not offering this to white candidates. … It’s really insulting, too. Why is he talking about providing special assistance to teachers, candidates, and then talking about HBCUs? That&#8217;s more than a [racist] dog whistle — that&#8217;s a dog megaphone.”
“Everything he says echoes critical race theory,” he continued. “It automatically operates on the assumption that the most important aspect of our lives is race.” He added that a good education program “has nothing to do with the color of the teacher or the color of the student. It has to do with the presence of excellence,” Fox News reported.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/terry-mcauliffe-claims-crt-has-never-been-in-virginia-schools-his-administration-pushed-it-documents-show/">reported</a> on Sunday:
<blockquote>Multiple documents on the Virginia Department of Education website reference Critical Race Theory (CRT) despite former Governor Terry McAuliffe’s repeated claims that CRT is not taught in Virginia’s public schools.
McAuliffe repeated his claim about CRT in an <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/full-mcauliffe-interview-what-i-get-asked-about-every-day-is-covid-125030469892">appearance</a> on MSNBC on Sunday, telling network host Chuck Todd that Glenn Youngkin, McAuliffe’s GOP opponent to become the next governor of Virginia, is lying about CRT-influenced curriculum in schools. Documents linked on the Virginia Department of Education’s website reveal CRT’s influence on school curriculum and processes, however. …
The Manhattan Institute’s Chris Rufo <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1454467134067642377">highlighted</a> several <a href="https://christopherrufo.com/mcaullifes-crt-lie/">documents</a> &#8212; one dating back to when McAuliffe ran the state from 2014 to 2018 &#8212; on the Virginia Department of Education’s website featuring CRT. In 2015, the state Department of Education pushed a slideshow promoting CRT in response to racial disparities in public school discipline.
“African American students suspended [more] than double their % age in student population,” says the <a href="https://www.doe.virginia.gov/support/virginia_tiered_system_supports/resources/2015_fall_institute/Legal_implications_of_discipline.pdf">slideshow</a>, prepared by University of South Florida professor Brenda Townsend Walker. To cut down on black student suspensions, Walker encourages school administrators to incorporate a “Critical Race Theory (CRT) lens” into their disciplinary process. She also encourages teachers to “[e]mbrace Critical Race Theory” and “[e]ngage in race-conscious teaching and learning.”</blockquote>

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