Virginians will get a second chance in a year to vote against Donald Trump.
The state is holding an off-off-year election for governor and Republicans have nominated a Trump clone for the office.
His name is Glenn Youngkin (AKA: Trumpkin). He’s like a Donald Trump who has graduated from charm school. He holds the same anti-democratic and reactionary views as Trump but voices them in a more highfalutin way.
Trumpkin is running against former Gov. Terry McAuliffe. McAuliffe restored voting rights to 173,611 ex-felons when he was previously governor. Under Virginia law, he had to do so by signing 173,611 individual documents by hand. Terry is the direct opposite of voter-suppressing Republicans who would restrict voting to white Fox News viewers if they could.
We know how important state government can be. Gov. Greg Abbott is desperately trying to force misogynistic restrictions on abortions in Texas. Gov. Ron DeSantis wants everybody in Florida to get COVID-19 to please a campaign contributor who has a stake in a pharmaceutical company which claims to have a treatment for the virus.
So if you’re in Virginia, vote for Terry McAuliffe on November 2nd. If you know anybody in Virginia, remind them to vote. We can no longer take democracy for granted; the states as a whole are as important as the federal government.
