{"id":952971,"date":"2021-11-02T09:43:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=952971"},"modified":"2021-11-02T09:43:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:43:44","slug":"youngkin-makes-his-final-case-in-loudoun-county-victory-will-not-be-given-to-us-we-must-go-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youngkin-makes-his-final-case-in-loudoun-county-victory-will-not-be-given-to-us-we-must-go-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Youngkin Makes His Final Case in Loudoun County: Victory \u2018Will Not Be Given to Us\u2019; \u2018We Must Go Get It\u2019"},"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\">40<\/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-makes-his-final-case-in-loudoun-county-victory-will-not-be-given-to-us-we-must-go-get-it%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=952971&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--><p class=\"subheading\">LOUDOUN, Virginia \u2014 Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin ended his marathon statewide tour in Loudoun County, delivering his culminating campaign speech Monday night to thousands of supporters in the wealthy, blue Northern Virginia suburb.<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin\u2019s final stop on his \u201cWin with Glenn\u201d bus tour was symbolic as Loudoun has taken center stage in the national issue of parents versus school boards, an issue that has powered Youngkin over the last several weeks of the campaign trail and helped the once underdog close the gap in polls.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>As he made his way up to the stage Monday night to Norman Greenbaum\u2019s \u201cSpirit in the Sky,\u201d signs that read \u201cParents for Youngkin\u201d could be seen in the sea of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/01\/photos-thousands-of-virginians-gather-for-glenn-youngkins-closing-rally-in-loudoun-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rallygoers<\/a>, of whom there were more than 4,000, a Youngkin spokesperson estimated to Breitbart News.<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin channeled the song at the start of his speech, telling the crowd, \u201cThat spirit in the sky is telling us that this a moment, a defining moment for the future of our commonwealth, a defining moment where we get to stand up and say no to this left, liberal, progressive agenda that\u2019s trying to take us over. No!\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18561218\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/AP_21306130361160.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18561218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP_21306130361160-1024x681-1.jpg\" alt=\"Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin addresses supporters at a campaign rally in Leesburg, Va., Monday, Nov. 1, 2021. (AP Photo\/Cliff Owen)\" width=\"990\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin addresses supporters in Loudoun County, Virginia, November 1, 2021. (AP Photo\/Cliff Owen)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis is our moment where we stand up for our children, for our grandchildren, for our nieces, for our nephews, for our neighbors, and we decide that we in fact are going to be in charge of our children\u2019s education,\u201d he boomed into the microphone with a voice hoarse from the dozens of tour stops leading up to his speech that night.<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin, a businessman who has never run for office, is facing former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), a longtime political insider who once served as chair of the Democratic National Committee and is a close ally of the Clinton family.<\/p>\n<p>Framing the need for an outsider as a driving incentive to vote for him,&nbsp; Youngkin said, \u201cWe have to break the power out of Richmond. We have to have a moment where power shifts away from the marble halls of Virginia and its moves to the kitchen tables around Virginia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Virginia Republican has campaigned on \u201ckitchen table\u201d issues since before winning the Republican nomination in May,&nbsp;<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/04\/14\/gop-gubernatorial-candidate-youngkin-reopening-schools-right-to-work-will-swing-northern-virginia-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">telling<\/a>&nbsp;<em>Breitbart News Daily<\/em>&nbsp;in an interview in April that if a Republican candidate could swing a&nbsp;\u201creasonable chunk\u201d of voters in Northern Virginia based on issues of education and workers\u2019 rights, that candidate could have a fighting chance at winning in November after the party had failed to win at the state level for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have to win fully Northern Virginia, 51 percent. We just have to get her back from the 70\u201330 to close to 60\u201340,\u201d Youngkin said at the time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18561314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/AP_21306139746270-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18561314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP_21306139746270-2-1024x684-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"661\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin addresses supporters in Loudoun County, Virginia, November 1, 2021. (AP Photo\/Cliff Owen)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Loudoun, where Youngkin spoke for about a half an hour Monday night, became what many have described as \u201cground zero\u201d in the education wars after a gym teacher was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/05\/28\/gym-teacher-put-on-leave-after-refusing-to-address-trans-students-by-preferred-pronouns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">put on leave<\/a> for refusing to use students\u2019 preferred pronouns. Transgender policies and Critical Race Theory have since taken off as the tensest issues dominating the education scene in Loudoun.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Youngkin zeroed in on this during his remarks, saying, \u201cFrom the farms in Shenandoah Valley to the docks in Newport News to \u2026 the monuments in Arlington Cemetery to the banks on the James River \u2014 to the school board meetings in Loudoun County! \u2014 this is where parents are. This is where Virginians are, where we come together to redefine this future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As he painted a picture of Virginia, where \u201ckids dream the biggest dreams they can think of and go get them,\u201d \u201cwhere in fact you have more of your money in your pocket versus in Terry McAuliffe\u2019s pocket,\u201d Youngkin said the promise of this idyllic Virginia \u201changs in the balance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt hangs in the balance because tomorrow, we must go get it. It will not be given to us. This democracy is not a spectator sport. It is an active involvement. We must go get it. We must go get it,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18561258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"41\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP_21306147409255.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18561258\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP_21306147409255.jpg\" alt=\"Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin addresses supporters with Lt. Gov. candidate Winsome Sears, center, and Attorney General candidate Jason Miyares, at a campaign rally in Leesburg, Va., Monday, Nov. 1, 2021. Youngkin faces Democratic gubernatorial candidate former Gov. Terry McAuliffe in the Nov. 2, election.(AP Photo\/Cliff Owen)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin addresses supporters with Winsome Sears, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, and Jason Miyares, the Republican candidate for attorney general, in Loudoun County, Virginia, November 1, 2021. (AP Photo\/Cliff Owen)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Loudoun will play a pivotal role on Election Day as the populous county of nearly half a million voted a whopping 25 points in favor of President Joe Biden in 2020. Youngkin, who is now in a dead heat with McAuliffe in polls, is relying in part on turnout of Northern Virginia parents. Polling that has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/30\/gops-youngkin-surges-as-democrat-mcauliffe-stumbles-into-home-stretch-before-election-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shown<\/a>&nbsp;Youngkin gaining ground has also revealed education may be at least part of the reason for his surge, as the issue had overtaken others like the economy and coronavirus in terms of voter priorities in the lead-up to Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin during his remarks on Monday juxtaposed himself with McAuliffe on the ballot, saying that on one side is the Virginia Democrat, who \u201cwants to put government between parents and our children. Terry McAuliffe wants to force everybody to join the union. Terry McAuliffe wants you to get fired by your employer for not taking the vaccine. Terry McAuliffe wants to raise your taxes in the middle of the night because he thinks it\u2019s his money. I know it\u2019s yours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then said, \u201cOn the other side of the ballot is freedom and liberty, and I\u2019m standing for freedom and liberty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Write to Ashley Oliver at <a href=\"mailto:aoliver@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aoliver@breitbart.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOUDOUN, Virginia \u2014 Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin ended his marathon statewide tour in Loudoun County, delivering his culminating campaign speech Monday night to thousands of supporters in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952971","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\/952971","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\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952971\/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=952971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}