On Might 2, lower than every week earlier than the GOP conference, Cruz launched this video endorsement of Youngkin.
After praising Youngkin as “a profitable enterprise chief” and “political outsider,” Cruz lower to the chase by declaring:
Glenn is pro-life. He’s a gun proprietor. He’s a defender of spiritual liberty. In case you’ve ever frolicked with him, you understand that he is the actual deal. A Christian, a household man who has his priorities straight, and a man with widespread sense.”
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Glenn is the most effective probability Republicans have of successful in Virginia this yr.”
Cruz not solely made the video, however then spent several days before the convention campaigning with Youngkin at “Win Win Glenn” occasions across the state with stops in such cities as Salem, Bedford, Lynchburg, Danville, Virginia Seashore, Chesapeake, and Chesterfield.
Youngkin ended up successful the nomination over Snyder by a margin of 55% to 45% within the sixth spherical of the ranked-choice conference voting.
After which” Cruz fully vanished from the final election marketing campaign. A Google search confirmed no public marketing campaign occasions that includes Cruz in Virginia, from the GOP conference on Might 8 to Election Day on Nov. 2.
Youngkin obfuscated his hard-right positions on abortion rights and weapons. As a substitute, he touted his enterprise file and launched phony assaults concerning educating essential race concept in colleges and the necessity to ban sexually express books from faculty libraries, together with the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved by the Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison.
A liberal activist released a video of Youngkin at a rally saying that he needed to restrict his anti-abortion feedback on the marketing campaign path for concern of alienating impartial voters, however that he would go “on offense” if he gained the governor’s race and Republicans gained a majority within the Home of Delegates,
The Democratic nominee, former governor Terry McAuliffe, did emphasize linking Youngkin to Trump. However other than some fundraising appeals, did McAuliffe make a lot of the Cruz endorsement? Wouldn’t it have made any distinction in a detailed race that Youngkin ended up successful by a margin of fifty.6% to 48.6%?
After which guess who confirmed as much as congratulate Youngkin at his victory rally on Nov. 2?
After Youngkin was inaugurated, he shortly went full MAGA, in keeping with the Washington Monthly. He canceled faculty masks mandates and banned the educating of “essential race concept.”
Republicans now management the decrease Home of Delegates, however Democrats retain a fragile 21-19 majority within the Senate, which might block essentially the most excessive proposals. Nonetheless, there may be one conservadem, and any tie can be damaged by the Republican lieutenant governor. The state Senate is up for election in 2023.
And Cruz nonetheless has Youngkin’s again. After an Arlington resident expressed disapproval that Youngkin confirmed up with no masks at a grocery store for an occasion in early February, Cruz rushed to Twitter to defend his good friend.
The lesson: Democratic candidates need to confront their Republican challengers and never allow them to use Youngkin’s technique of hiding their actual agenda. And that features exposing the endorsers who introduced them to the dance.
