Maybe the VA lesson is: There IS a post-tfg GOP: Because tfg LOST VA.

[lindysalsagal]

Maybe this is telling the gop they can go back to who they always were, and don't have to be slaves to tfg. Maybe this is the real deathknell of frumperism. Maybe Youngkin proved the gop can operate without sucking up to the orange menace. Tfg is no longer needed?

[bearsfootball516]

1. Perhaps, but Virginia was also a purple state with deep anti-Trump sentiment, even among Republicans

In red states, clinging to Trump probably still wins.

[lindysalsagal]

2. OK. Agreed. So, maybe this is the step they needed to take away from tfg: Re-establish

their connection to the voters while rejecting the ugliness tfg brought to the surface?

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. The president's party ALWAYS loses the VA gov race

11 out of 12 elections since 1977.

This year may be the narrowest Dem loss since 1977.

[lindysalsagal]

4. Great observation and perspective. Thanks.

[BradAllison]

5. Bullshit

Youngkin is a Trump ball licker, as are most of his supporters.

They just pretended otherwise.