Fri Nov 12, 2021 – 12:16 pm ESTFri Nov 12, 2021 – 12:19 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — When Terry McAuliffe, who served as Virginia’s governor from 2014 to 2018, announced on December 9, 2020, that he was launching a comeback campaign to retake his old job in 2021, he did so to great fanfare from Democrats and little expectation from most anyone else that he’d face steep competition on his next rise to the top.
When Glenn Youngkin, a much lesser-known Republican businessman, made the very same announcement the following month, almost nobody noticed at all.
Yet just under one year later, a different scenario is playing out in the Old Dominion: Terry McAuliffe is riding off into the sunset of an early retirement, and Glenn Youngkin is on his way to the Executive Mansion in Richmond.
Indeed, this remarkable turn of events in the purple-verging-on-blue Virginia may have been an unexpected one, but it’s certainly not unfamiliar: Against all odds, another successful outsider who built his career in the private sector has managed to beat a liberal fixture of the political establishment at his very own game.
But how and why, exactly, did Governor-Elect Glenn
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