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Polybius

(15,331 posts)
Tue May 11, 2021, 01:25 AM May 2021

Virginia Republicans nominate Glenn Younkin for governor

Source: NBC News

Virginia Republicans selected former private equity executive Glenn Youngkin as their nominee in this year's governor's election, in which he will face whomever Democrats nominate in their own primary next month.

Glenn Youngkin got 55 percent of the vote over fellow businessman Pete Snyder, who got 45 percent and conceded before the final tally was announced after a full day of ballot counting.

Seven candidates competed in an unusual and controversial "unassembled convention" Saturday, when 28,000 Republican voters and activists cast weighted and ranked-choice ballots at dozens of locations across the state after the party opted against a standard primary.

Among Republicans, all leading candidates aligned themselves with former President Donald Trump, including Youngkin and Snyder — a longtime Republican donor who chaired Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign in Virginia — even though both have backgrounds in the more establishment-friendly country club wing of the GOP.

Read more: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1266889

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Virginia Republicans nominate Glenn Younkin for governor (Original Post) Polybius May 2021 OP
Chaired Romney's campaign? Why, he must be a LOSER oldsoftie May 2021 #1
Guess Youngkin licked tRump's Boots better than Snyder Best_man23 May 2021 #2
What? Thought Amanda Chase would lead the Qanon cult to victory. sinkingfeeling May 2021 #3
She said there would be an "immediate" audit if she was named the nominee PortTack May 2021 #4
Young Kin - he's got the right name for the Grand Old Pedophile Party Probatim May 2021 #5

Best_man23

(4,897 posts)
2. Guess Youngkin licked tRump's Boots better than Snyder
Tue May 11, 2021, 07:58 AM
May 2021

That said, we still need to kick their asses up and down the ballot in November.

Keep Virginia Blue!

PortTack

(32,691 posts)
4. She said there would be an "immediate" audit if she was named the nominee
Tue May 11, 2021, 12:24 PM
May 2021

Funny thing is, does she not know the qgop only put women in token positions of power??!!

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