That’s what Republicans are now. Any voter thinking he was a moderate was naive.
Cheerful suburban dad Glenn Youngkin convinced many Virginia parents that their children were under threat of CRT indoctrination.
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 12, 2022
Now Republicans in the state plan to:
* cancel minimum wage hike
* require voter ID
* cut early voting
* expand open carryhttps://t.co/kS60KSsG3v pic.twitter.com/R8vH5wCOFv
New: 150+ ex-Environmental Protection Agency employees are uging the Virginia Senate to oppose the nomination of former EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler to GOP Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin’s cabinet. They wrote to senators in a letter first shared with @AP. https://t.co/FymjMcY2za
— Sarah Rankin (@sarah_rankin) January 14, 2022
I've been told incoming AG @JasonMiyaresVA just FIRED the entire civil rights division in the Attorney General's office. My bill helped create and expand the authority that this division uses.
— L. Louise Lucas (@SenLouiseLucas) January 14, 2022
Bold of Glenn Youngkin to choose someone who believed (in 2019) that “both sides of the Holocaust” need to be taught. Among other Islamophobic and reprehensible comments. https://t.co/nbV0ZhCtlY https://t.co/78ycTfnj7n
— Andrew Millin (@ajm0614) January 13, 2022
.@MaddowBlog: Glenn Youngkin campaigned that Virginians need not fear Republican governance in Virginia. Those assumptions are due for a reevaluation. https://t.co/MeDvHpkLlU
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 12, 2022
To repeat, the mainstream media treatment of Youngkin, a clever campaigner appealing to the Trumpists but really a moderate or mainstreamer, was ridiculous. He is a radical Trumpist, picking radical Trumpists for key positions. https://t.co/82QXqy2F4t
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) January 10, 2022
I tried warn people about this during the campaign. #Youngkin telegraphed this early on. He said, if you elected him, you were electing “a whole new crop of Republicans along with me.” That was code for Trumpers.
— Tara Setmayer (@TaraSetmayer) January 13, 2022
Should’ve been used against him, repeatedly.
Sigh. https://t.co/e0qhH6Km9c pic.twitter.com/JsVL5hWhhz
Youngkin is telling everyone that he plans to challenge vaccine mandates. @UVA just moved the booster deadline up to Jan.14th, one day before he takes office. Well played. pic.twitter.com/rZyxDKHopx
— zyahna bryant. (@ZyahnaB) January 7, 2022
Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin has named a respected physician who opposes blanket vaccine mandates and downplayed the threat of the coronavirus to children as his lead adviser on pandemic response https://t.co/KGHSFxYtxB
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 15, 2022
Youngkin has said he will work for all Virginians, but also made clear he believes he has a conservative mandate
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 17, 2022
https://t.co/70AFYpU6aS
Full DeSantis/Abbott right out of the gate. https://t.co/zl5lfbTo0r
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) January 17, 2022
Sad! 