November 4, 2021
The recent election results sent a clear message- Americans are rejecting President Biden’s incompetence and radical, woke agenda.
Biden campaigned as a moderate who would restore unity to our fractured nation, but he has governed from the playbook of the most extreme leftists of his party. Despite having no mandate with only a razor-thin majority in House and a 50-50 Senate, Biden and his fellow Democrats want to re-engineer the US economy into a socialist welfare state while replacing equal opportunity with race-based equity.
Americans spoke out with their vote. They do not want the radical transformation proposed by Democrats, nor are they buying the racist, socialist propaganda that those on the left are selling.
Blue Virginia, which Biden won handily by ten percentage points in 2020 went red Tuesday night. Former President Obama, President Biden, and the usually MIA Vice President Harris all campaigned for the former governor of Virginia, Democrat Terry McAuliffe.
Yet, McAuliffe lost to a political novice with no name recognition, Glenn Youngkin. Yes- this was a referendum against the failing president and his far-left agenda.
Exit polls found that 1/3 of voters said they were voting to send a message about Biden’s presidency. According to a Fox News poll, more than 1/2 of Virginians disapprove of Biden’s job performance, and 2/3 believe that the country is on the “wrong track”.
Critical Race Theory
Overall, 72% of Virginia voters said Critical Race Theory was an “important” factor in their vote. Despite the denials of CNN, MSNBC, and McAuliffe, Virginia schools do teach Critical Race Theory. Materials found on the Virginia Department of Education website provide ample evidence.
City Journal’s Christoper Rufo detailed evidence of CRT in VA schools in a series of tweets. Some of the examples he provided:
A presentation from 2015, when McAuliffe was governor of VA, encourages teachers to “embrace Critical Race Theory” in “order to re-engineer attitudes and belief systems.”
Under the Northam administration, superintendent of Public instruction, James Lane sent a memo to Virginia public schools endorsing “foundations of Critical Race Theory in education.” Calling it an “important analytical tool”.
The Virginia DOE website recommends “Critical Race Theory in Education” as a “best practice” and derives its definitions of “racism”, “white supremacy”, and “education equity” explicitly from “critical race theory”
The shockingly close gubernatorial race in solidly blue New Jersey should also be a wake-up call to Democrats. Even former Obama adviser David Axelrod expressed concern that Democratic lawmakers from swing districts may be “re-thinking” their vote for Biden’s massive Reconciliation Bill.
Axelrod is right. Every Democrat, especially those from a purple state or district with expectations of reelection, should reevaluate their support for Biden’s radical Build Back Better agenda and their plan to re-engineer the US economy.
Other Republican wins include:
Seattle, where Donald Trump received only 8% of the vote in 2020, a Republican was elected city attorney. The first GOP win in 30 years for a city office in progressive Seattle.
Republican Jason Miyares became the first Hispanic attorney general in Virginia.
In New York, a record number of GOP candidates were victorious, including Nassau County Republican Anne Donnelly, who easily defeated Todd Kaminsky- a supporter of NY’s no-cash bail laws.
Rep Ilhan Omar’s hometown of Minneapolis, the birthplace of the “defund the police” movement voted against the defunding the police.
Undoubtedly, Americans are aware that Biden and his progressive agenda are failing our nation.
Biden’s ineptitude is glaringly apparent. The US is facing multiple crises brought on or exacerbated by the policies and decisions made by Biden: the Afghanistan debacle, surging inflation, rising gas prices, crime surge, terror threats, labor shortages, supply chain disruption, and out of control illegal immigration -to name a few of the Biden caused debacles.
Recent nationwide poll numbers reflect Biden’s dismal performance as president. An NBC poll found that only 37% of Americans consider Biden a competent, effective president. Another recent NBC survey found that 71% of Americans and almost 1/2 of Democrats believe the nation is headed in the wrong direction.
Make no mistake, this election is just a precursor for 2022 and 2024. Even our incompetent VP Kamala Harris understood the Virginia race outcome was predictive for the future of the Democratic party. While campaigning for McAuliffe Harris told the crowd,
“What happens in Virginia will in large part determine what happens in 2022, 2024, and on.”
The tide has turned.
