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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He’ll be elected president in 2024. Parents are tired of being silenced.[/quote]

Such a stupid comment. This will never happen. The nominee will be Trump or DeSantis. [/quote]

I think you'll be surprised. As a moderate, I'll happily cross parties and vote for Youngkin. But never Trump or DeSantis.[/quote]

Moderate Democrats don’t decide who wins the Republican nomination.[/quote]

You're right - they don't.

[twitter]https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1494677190344073225[/twitter][/quote]

This is more about trump being done vs republicans not wanting to destroy the country. Oh and no moderate dem would even consider voting for youngkin. Maybe a a “moderate” trumper would but not a moderate democrat. [/quote]

Okay. Check those VA exit polls again. Trust me, Youngkin didn't win just with Republicans.

https://www.cnn.com/election/2021/november/exit-polls[/quote]

DP. Exit polls are now three months old and tell us nothing about what Youngkin has done since taking office.  Current approval polls like OP posted are much more relevant to public sentiment today.[/quote]

Well he has secured a major political victory in removing all mask mandates in the state for one and has the Democrats in the U.S. Senate copying him and trying to implement a FEDERAL gas tax holiday for another. All in under 30 days. I'd say he's pretty successful. But keep whining, its not working, but its entertaining.

[twitter]https://twitter.com/Maggie_Hassan/status/1494430690393403392[/twitter][/quote]

He didn't "secure a major political victory" with the mask mandates thing. He issued an "executive order" and a large majority of school districts said, "oh, screw you" and ignored him for weeks. This was important since it bought critical weeks until Omicron finally petered out. When Youngkin was sworn in, the positivity rate in Loudoun was like 35% for example. By the time the legislature acted, it was under 8%.  So in fact, what that showed was Youngkin took office and tried to flex some authority and everyone showed him the finger. It was actually a major FAIL -- never seen a new governor so disrespected like that.

As for the gas tax, that's really dumb. Our roads aren't in great shape as it is. Maybe there is some infrastructure money coming from the feds that makes this gas tax holiday easier to do? If so, Youngkin should thank Joe Biden.

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Youngkin issued an Executive Order on the 21st. Then the local school boards whined and sued. Ahead of the Virginia Assembly coming together in a bipartisan caucus and striking down the mask mandates statewide. The law passed and he signed it on February 18th. And the counties tuck tails and ran because what can they do now lol?

Any way you spin it that is a major political victory. I mean unless of course you think legislation passes in a vacuum with no executive input. Maybe that's why caucus one state over for the nation has been fractious. [/quote]

No, it wasn't. It was  huge embarrassment. There was no "whining and suing." The school boards defied him. Plain and simple. It was an astonishing rebuke of a new governor.

The four weeks that defiance bought was critical as cases came down in the meantime. It was highly likely masks were going to be relaxed anyway.

This was not in any way a victory. He was shown the proverbial finger for weeks. It took Democrats in the legislature to do his bidding. And for that, Chap Petersen must lose his job in the next cycle.[/quote]

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