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.
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oldsoftie
(12,486 posts)Best_man23
(4,897 posts)That said, we still need to kick their asses up and down the ballot in November.
Keep Virginia Blue!
sinkingfeeling
(51,436 posts)PortTack
(32,691 posts)Funny thing is, does she not know the qgop only put women in token positions of power??!!