JF in the News: Youngkin Appoints Susan Beals as Virginia’s New Elections Commissioner
Youngkin revealed his intentions to appoint a new election commissioner in January during an interview with conservative radio host John Fredericks.
Youngkin revealed his intentions to appoint a new election commissioner in January during an interview with conservative radio host John Fredericks.
OPINION By Greg Sargent. Article courtesy of The Washington Post. Almost immediately after Glenn Youngkin unexpectedly won the Virginia gubernatorial race, some observers spied a tantalizing possibility: Youngkin might show that in today’s Trumpified GOP, there’s still a place for a center-right politics that rebuffs Donald Trump’s worst impulses and charts a new route to a […]
Mr. Youngkin has issued two executive orders aimed at the G.O.P. base: one banning critical race theory and the other banning school mask mandates.
MUST READ: Trump did not seem inclined to let him pivot away, repeatedly weighing in on the race. In an appearance on the “John Fredericks Radio Show” in September, Trump warned that Youngkin risked losing by not fully embracing the Make America Great Again movement.
The GOP establishment darling told John Fredericks that she’d back Kevin McCarthy for Speaker and should be elected because she’s a woman.
“The only guys that win are the guys that embrace the MAGA movement,” Trump said on the “John Fredericks Radio Show” when asked about Youngkin’s chances against Democrat Terry McAuliffe, a former governor seeking a comeback. “When they try to go down a railroad track, you know, ‘Hey, oh yeah, sure, love it, love it. Oh, yeah, love Trump. Love Trump. Okay, let’s go, next subject.’ When they do that, nobody, they don’t — they never win. They never win. They have to embrace it.”