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- February 26, 2022
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Back in October, Bacon’s Rebellion wrote in detail about a $200,000 donation by Dominion Energy to Virginia Accountability PAC, a benign-sounding but nefarious super PAC determined to keep Glenn Youngkin out of the governor’s office by any means necessary. The PAC had a particularly dastardly plot, even by the low standards we’ve come to expect […]

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The Republican Standard
- November 22, 2021
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Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) told The New York Times that Democrats essentially forbid her from coming to the state to campaign for Terry McAuliffe. She suggested that the decision cost McAuliffe the governorship. The progressive congresswoman previously called McAuliffe’s campaign “super-moderate.” She added that the former and would-be governor failed to excite the party’s […]

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- November 2, 2021
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Election Day is finally here and polls in Virginia have closed. The race for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and all 100 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates are up for grabs. Anything less than a landslide by Terry McAuliffe should send shivers down the spines of national Democrats to say nothing of the […]

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The Republican Standard
- November 2, 2021
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Sponsored Help Winsome Sears – Flip Virginia Red! Virginia is home to this year’s biggest, most contested political race. That means the Old Dominion is also home to campaign trackers—staffers who follow the opposing candidate hoping to record a gaffe or worse. Despite that reality, the McAuliffe campaign was none too happy to see a […]

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The Republican Standard
- November 1, 2021
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Sponsored Help Winsome Sears – Flip Virginia Red! Tomorrow won’t be the first time Winsome Sears attempts to make history. The conservative trailblazer pioneered a strategy two decades ago to win over minority voters that’s now paying dividends with Republicans. In 2001, Sears ran and won a race in a majority black district in the […]

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The Republican Standard
- November 1, 2021
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Fox News reports that the Virginia Department of Education’s (VDOE) website extolls critical race theory as a means of fighting racism. The revelation further contradicts the VDOE’s repeated claims it doesn’t teach CRT. SEE ALSO: Records Reveal Coordinated Scheme to Push Critical Race Theory Initiatives in Loudoun County In fact, after doing some digging, Fox […]

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The Republican Standard
- October 29, 2021
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In contrast to Fox News’ latest survey, a new poll by The Washington Post-Schar School shows the Virginia governor’s race within the margin of error. However, Friday’s snapshot of the race becomes more interesting when one examines the numbers closely. (RELATED: Fox News Poll Has Youngkin +8) The poll shows Terry McAuliffe leading by one-point […]

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The Republican Standard
- October 29, 2021
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Yesterday, Fox News learned that the McAuliffe campaign retained the services of former Clinton counsel and election lawyer Marc Elias. Elias has attracted controversy in the past. In 2016, as the Hillary Clinton campaign’s general counsel and a partner at Perkins Coie, he allegedly is linked to the campaign’s management of, or at least payment […]

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The Republican Standard
- October 27, 2021
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Even Barack Obama couldn’t give a speech on behalf of Terry McAuliffe without making a critical gaffe. The former president wasted no time trying to whitewash McAuliffe’s record on parental rights in public schools. However, in doing so, he tried to gaslight Virginia’s parents. Appearing alongside McAuliffe at a campaign rally over the weekend, Obama called […]

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The Republican Standard
- October 27, 2021
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Once upon a time, Republicans were rocked to sleep with notions of momentum and enthusiasm in the closing weeks and days of a campaign. In 2006, George Allen was thought to have sufficiently recovered from a 20+ point slide in order to eke out a 2-3 point win — only to lose by 0.4% (just […]

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