Given too much credit for his 2021 gubernatorial win, the Virginia governor has a long road to go before he’s a serious presidential candidate
Yes, the Virginia governor looks pretty tall through the lens of nearby D.C. pundits. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images As it happens, New Jersey and Virginia hold gubernatorial elections in the year following presidential elections. So more often than not, the party that holds the White House tends to do poorly in the ensuing New Jersey/Virginia gubernatorial contests. Indeed, between 1973 and 2021, the candidate of the White House party has won exactly once in Virginia.
What makes Ball’s take interesting is that she is not focusing on Youngkin’s appeal to the usual conservative Christian parents upset about “wokeness” — many of whom homeschool their kids or send them to private schools in any event — but on a small slice of high-income suburban parents upset about the alleged abandonment of high academic standards in public schools:
Education aside, is there something about Youngkin that really makes him presidential timber after just over a year in office? Clearly he has an inner circle of advisers who think so, as the Washington Post reported in June: Many Nebraska Republicans who heard him speak said they would love to see Youngkin run for president — though some cautioned that the next election might be too soon. “I think he needs to continue to work hard for the people of Virginia,” said Jim Bunch, 62, a Nebraska GOP delegate who has lived in Virginia and got his photo taken with Youngkin. “At some point down the road he would be an attractive candidate for national office.
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