Here's Dan Rather's take on last night. [View all]

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Last paragraph is tough.

https://www.newsandguts.com/opinion-democrats-dont-blame-crt-for-loss-in-virginia/?fbclid=IwAR3OoS0jpCRP8AVzMJ6eVT-dhAwxE2mDHxMyGI0V7TVeM0u31yZUu9JEGao


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Which leads to a larger point: Democrats often seem out of touch with voters. This manifests itself in myriad ways. Left-leaning activists often shout down detractors in defense of deeply unpopular initiatives (like defunding the police, which was defeated in Minneapolis on Tuesday night). And while Virginia voters clearly signaled that they wanted to move on from Donald Trump – Youngkin strategically distanced himself from the former president during his campaign – Democrats seem hellbent on making him the central boogeyman in their attempt to win over voters.

There’s something else about Youngkin that underscores a problem for the left: he’s a fresh face. Democrats, on the other hand, not only ran a political lifer in Virginia – Terry McAuliffe was co-chairman of the Clinton campaign in 1996 – but the entire party is led by entrenched insiders. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been in Congress since the Reagan administration, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is on his fifth president, and Biden himself was first elected to the Senate in 1972.

Fresh faces and fresh ideas are in order.