While McAuliffe voters were almost unanimously negative on the former president, only about three-quarters (73 percent) of Youngkin voters had a favorable opinion of Trump and 19 percent had a negative view of him. The NBC News exit poll found that 54 percent of voters said they have an unfavorable opinion of Trump, compared to 41 percent who had a positive view of him. Trump has loomed large over the Virginia race, with McAuliffe looking to tie his opponent to the divisive former president, who lost the state by 10 percentage points in 2020. Republicans say the issue could be central in future campaigns across the country. The race was stoked by conservative alarmism about critical race theory, an until-recently obscure academic discipline mostly taught in universities. Youngkin made education the centerpiece of his campaign, capitalizing on parental frustration with school closures and a McAuliffe gaffe in the final debate when he said, "I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach." NBC News exit polls found the economy was the top issue for Virginia voters - they split roughly evenly on which candidate they trusted more to handle the issue - followed by education, taxes, Covid and abortion, in that order. And Republican Mike Carey will keep Ohio's 15th Congressional District in GOP control. In the Cleveland area district, NBC News projected Democrat Shontel Brown won. The American Legion is the nations largest wartime veterans service organization aimed at advocating patriotism across the U.S. Two special congressional elections in Ohio resulted in keeping the seats under the same party control. Democrats won control of the state Legislature for the first time in decades two years ago and pushed through an expansion of early voting rules that some analysts predicted would help the party turn out its base.Įven as New Jersey remained too close to call, New York City provided one bright spot for Democrats, as voters there elected Eric Adams the city's new mayor, according to NBC News. Ralph Northam, who is prohibited by the state Constitution from running for a second term, won by 9 percentage points in 2017. Ultimately, the series of events that unfolded cleared the way for Terry McAuliffe to run for Virginia governor in 2021, a race he lost to current Republican Gov.
Biden won by 10 percentage points last November. NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Govern- ing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from. No Republican had won statewide since 2009.
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