Youngkin's win in blue Virginia offers Republicans a 2022 road map.
would have been enough to lift GOP spirits and put Democrats on edge heading into the 2022 midterm elections.a cautious distance
“That type of energy? You can't just flip a switch and do it,” said Zack Roday, a Republican strategist who is based in Richmond, Va., and has worked for former House Speaker Paul Ryan and former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. “It's a clear kind of projection of values.” “Just when Democrats think we've hit the bottom on rural voters, [Republicans] keep getting more blood out of the stone,” said Scott Kozar, a media consultant who worked with Virginia’s Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, Hala Ayala, and the party's leader in the Virginia House of Delegates. “This thing metastasized from a Trump phenomenon to just a rural phenomenon.”
Tuesday’s results in Virginia are the “clearest and most concrete indicator at the ballot box that the GOP has the wind at its back heading into 2022,” said Nick Everhart, a Republican media consultant. “And if the specter of a guilt-by-association-to-Trump attack can't help Democrats hold on to power in a state they’ve become accustomed to winning by big margins for well over a decade, then it’s unlikely to work in a large congressional and small Senate map battlefield.
“I don't necessarily think the Trump message alone is enough,” said Karundi Williams, executive director of re:power, a progressive organization that fights for people of color to be represented in politics and government. “Folks are done with the status quo with the Democrats. They want to see the agenda. They want to see the results of progressive policies being passed. And I think Democrats could lean into some of that even more in the messaging.
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