{"id":1488906,"date":"2022-05-23T17:45:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T21:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1488906"},"modified":"2022-05-23T17:45:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T21:45:29","slug":"youngkin-succeeds-where-mcauliffe-failed-washington-commanders-make-major-move-toward-virginia-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youngkin-succeeds-where-mcauliffe-failed-washington-commanders-make-major-move-toward-virginia-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Youngkin Succeeds Where McAuliffe Failed: Washington Commanders Make Major Move Toward Virginia Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyoungkin-succeeds-where-mcauliffe-failed-washington-commanders-make-major-move-toward-virginia-stadium%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1488906&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><span>Just four months into Republican governor Glenn Youngkin&#8217;s (R.) tenure, the Washington Commanders bought land in Virginia for a possible stadium move\u2014a development that Youngkin&#8217;s Democratic predecessors failed to accomplish in eight years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to ESPN, the Commanders <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/33971374\/source-washington-commanders-spend-100-million-land-virginia-possible-stadium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>paid<\/span><\/a><span> roughly $100 million for a potential stadium site in Northern Virginia&#8217;s Prince William County. The move comes shortly after Youngkin <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/local\/billion-dollar-plan-to-bring-washington-commanders-northern-virginia-glenn-youngkin-daniel-snyder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>met<\/span><\/a><span> with owner Dan Snyder to discuss moving the NFL franchise to the Old Dominion. &#8220;Virginia should be the best place in America to live and raise a family, and maybe it&#8217;s the best place in America to have a professional football team, too,&#8221; Youngkin said in February.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Youngkin&#8217;s liberal predecessors also attempted to lure the team to Virginia, but none made it as far as the former Carlyle Group executive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Former governor Terry McAuliffe (D.), who <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/gop-inclusion-trumps-neo-nazi-cosplay-in-race-to-succeed-blackface-democrat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>lost to Youngkin<\/span><\/a><span> in November, spent years lobbying Snyder to move the then-Redskins to Virginia and even <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/washington\/washington-redskins\/governor-mcauliffe-says-virginia-very-serious-negotiations-new-redskins-staidum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>claimed<\/span><\/a><span> to be in &#8220;very serious negotiations&#8221; with the franchise in 2016. Fellow Democratic governor Ralph Northam also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/aug\/7\/ralph-northam-virginia-governor-says-dulles-area-c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>floated<\/span><\/a><span> Northern Virginia as a stadium site and encouraged Snyder to make the move. But neither Democrat managed to secure the historic land buy seen under Youngkin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Commanders are likely to leave FedEx Field in the coming years\u2014their contract to play at the Maryland stadium expires in 2026. The franchise&#8217;s Virginia stadium plan reportedly includes a 60,000-seat domed stadium, a 20,000-seat amphitheater, an indoor music venue, and an array of bars, restaurants, and residential living. Snyder is also looking at land in Northern Virginia&#8217;s Loudoun County, according to ESPN.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just four months into Republican governor Glenn Youngkin&#8217;s (R.) tenure, the Washington Commanders bought land in Virginia for a possible stadium move\u2014a development that Youngkin&#8217;s Democratic predecessors failed to accomplish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}