Glenn Youngkin

Center-Right governor with adorable dad energy. Pro-parent, pro-education, pro-law enforcement. He supports the COVID vaccines but not the mandates. He established guidelines against schools changing the name or pronouns of students. He wants school choice and a 15 week restriction on abortion, however his state congress still enjoys Dem majority so since the Dems are in anti-school choice teacher union pockets, and Dems only want abortion until birth, he’s hoping that the GOP will win the majority of state congress so that he can pass the rest of his agenda. He’s best known for stealing the win from a blue leaning state where the dem candidate, and previous governor, Terry McAuliffe was supposed to win. There was controversy because the schools were infusing their curriculum with divisive ideology stemming from “critical race theory” and teachers, school boards, McAuliffe & the media were lying about the curriculum, and lying about the risk of sexual assault to girls as a result of allowing biological males, who did not identify as male, access to female spaces. Youngkin surged in the polls after McAuliffe famously said that parents shouldn’t have a say in the children’s education/curriculum. Instead of just addressing parent concerns, Mainstream media just piled on to the gaslighting & claimed things like “there’s no CRT in schools” and even depicted a father of a rape victim as an angry, hateful person. In the same election year, another GOP candidate in a blue state, New Jersey, came extremely close to winning. Then a little later, GOP Governor DeSantis won a swing state by a landslide. (Interestingly enough, democrat Newsom barely won CA, which implies relatively weak support considering its a super-Blue state.) The key demographic that tilted the election from blue to red were women & parents who were fed up with the failures of the schools system, the COVID school shutdowns, CRT and the attacks on female-only spaces. The lesson was clear to everyone except to those clinging to their denial: POLITICIANS MUST STOP TAKING PARENTS & WOMEN’S VOTES FOR GRANTED. Actually listen. Address our concerns. Stop gaslighting us…. Because our vote WILL make or break you. Virginia has a weird rule that the governor cannot serve his next term consecutively. Therefore, Youngkin is ineligible for the 2026 term and there’s speculation he could run for President 2024. I hope that he focuses more on his own state for now. Maybe he could consider a presidential campaign in 2028 since he will not be governor in that year. If he can successfully convince his state to vote in flip state congress red, to pass the rest of his agenda, he could have a strong record to go off of, should he desire to run for president. Also, he seems much more personable and warm than the other top contenders.