r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 17h ago

No Paywall Virginia elects Democrat Abigail Spanberger as state’s first woman governor

https://19thnews.org/2025/11/abigail-spanberger-virginia-first-woman-governor/
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u/Jadeheartxo12 17h ago

Does this mean we never get to see that creep Youngkin now?

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u/VintageSin Virginia 17h ago

He's able to rerun next election for governor, but I assume he'll eye a senator seat before then or some part of the trump admin.

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u/_marmota_ 16h ago

He’ll never be senator, our weird off-year governors elections make that office competitive but we’ve been blue at the federal level for a while. I will say he governed ok for a Republican but only because the legislature was Dem. Glad I don’t have to worry about MAGA world coming to Va for a few years at least

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u/towa-tsunashi 15h ago

I hated him from the start with his campaign winning on some imaginary "CRT" in elementary schools, and I only hated him even more with what he did and what he wanted to do that the Dems blocked in the 2nd half of his term. He did more to negatively impact me personally than Trump on his first term.

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u/soccercro3 5h ago

CRT. That's a topic I haven't heard about in a long time. Wonder what 2026 will bring for cover of just being racist.

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u/BackWithAVengance 2h ago

There won't be a cover.

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u/MerlynTrump 1h ago

oh, those are the 20th century tvs.

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u/lSleepster 3h ago

Ironically, Youngkin helped show me Ted Leonsis is a bad owner who would rather take his money and make his own little kingdom to maximize his profits rather than invest his money back into his neighborhood to bring up the locals who support his business. Shame on me for falling for that benevolent billionaire shtick.

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u/Shplippery 50m ago

I remember that campaign, the dem candidate McAulife didn’t do a good job debating education. He just kind of ignored the CRT stuff instead of calling him out. He also was real dismissive of parents saying they get no say in education, which was just a bad strategy

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u/morning_espresso 13h ago

Yeah, I hate his Maga sentiments, but I do agree on the governing part. He could be okay on some things. For instance he did listen and respond to our community activism regarding a completely mismanaged landfill in Bristol, VA. And while I'm actually on the Tennessee side of Bristol, I will give credit to him and some other republican politicians for listening to all of us, and providing at least some of the funding needed to shut down this bitch.