Oh Amanda, how could you?

When they say they fear voter fraud, there’s a really bad reason why.

A Virginia Republican who describes herself as “Trump in heels” has lost her latest election bid in the state.

Incumbent state Senator Amanda Chase was narrowly defeated by Glen Sturtevant in the GOP’s Virginia state Senate primary.

The race was called earlier this week for Mr Sturtevant, who previously served in the Virginia Senate until 2020, by The Associated Press. The race was required after redistricting in the state.

Ms Chase, who attended the January 6 rally for former president Donald Trump in Washington DC, was previously censured by the state Senate for a string of incendiary remarks and election denials.

She says she did not take part in the violent riot that followed and that she was driving home when it took place.

But Ms Chase later praised those who attacked the US Capitol and breached the building, insisting they were not “rioters and looters.”

Peter Montgomery at RWW: 

Glenn Youngkin, who made a fortune at the massive private equity firm Carlyle Group and has never held public office, claimed the Republican nomination for this year’s Virginia gubernatorial race on Monday night. Youngkin, who poured millions of dollars of his own money into his campaign, embraced former President Donald Trump and promoted the Republican “election integrity” agenda that is grounded in Trump’s lies about a stolen election. Youngkin’s campaign touted endorsements by Sen. Ted Cruz and religious-right activists.

Youngkin’s press release declaring victory repeatedly refers to him as a “political outsider”—one of his consistent talking points—but his campaign embraced the hard-right wing of the Republican Party. His campaign has bragged that he and his wife “personally contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to Republican candidates and organizations across the country.”

Last week, Fox News’ increasingly extreme host Tucker Carlson gave Youngkin a platform to promote his campaign with culture-war claims about Democrats wanting to teach critical race theory in schools. Youngkin told Carlson he would protect the Second Amendment and “our right to life,” pledged to fight to maintain Virginia’s anti-union “right to work” law, and promised to protect qualified immunity, which often prevents law enforcement officials from being held accountable for abusive policing.

Kristen Doerer at RWW: 

Derek Chauvin, the white Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd, a Black man, was convicted on three counts yesterday, with the jury finding him guilty of unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. Right-wing reaction to the verdict was just as one would expect: ugly.

As protests erupted across the country protesting the death of Floyd and killings of Black Americans last spring, right-wing operative Candace Owens ​cast Floyd ​as “a horrible human being​,” ​implying that Floyd somehow deserved to be killed. But she didn’t stop there: Owens also criticized the outrage ​expressed over his death as catering to “the bottom denominator of our society.” So it came as no surprise last night when we learned that she thought the verdict was wrong, telling Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Tuesday that the verdict was “mob justice​.”