{"id":953025,"date":"2021-11-02T09:44:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=953025"},"modified":"2021-11-02T09:44:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:44:36","slug":"two-elections-and-a-ballot-initiative-to-watch-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-elections-and-a-ballot-initiative-to-watch-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Elections And A Ballot Initiative To Watch Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Ftwo-elections-and-a-ballot-initiative-to-watch-today%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=953025&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>It\u2019s Election Day!<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s an off year; nationwide elections for all House seats and a third of the Senate seats won\u2019t occur until next November. But still, there are a few interesting elections to watch \u2014 and here they are.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIRGINIA GOVERNOR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With a slew of elections in deeply blue states and cities, the biggest election of 2021 is for governor of Virginia. Although President Joe Biden thumped Donald Trump by more than 10 points in 2020, things have gone decidedly south since Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Most polls in the last week have put Republican Glenn Youngkin and Democrat Terry McAuliffe within the margin of error \u2014 although one Fox News poll put Youngkin up by 8 points. But McAuliffe is clearly worried; he\u2019s called on Biden to campaign for his twice, along with first lady Jill Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview at a campaign stop last weekend, ABC News\u2019 Jonathan Karl said to McAuliffe: \u201cYou\u2019ve got [former Georgia gubernatorial candidate] Stacey Abrams in here, two visits by the president, a visit by the Former President Obama, a visit by the first lady, a visit by the vice president. Why all the \u2014 why do you need all the help?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell,\u201d McAuliffe said, \u201cwe did this last time. I mean, we did the same thing in \u201913. I mean, we always bring them in. This is what \u2014 this is the biggest race in America. Who doesn\u2019t want to be here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the waning days of the election, an alleged sexual assault in a school girls bathroom by a male student wearing a skirt \u2014 a story broken by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says\">The Daily Wire<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;along with outrage over school boards unilaterally deciding what children will be taught, took center stage. That has reportedly led to high enthusiasm by Republicans to hit the polls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the 2021 election\u2019s closing days, one McAuliffe aide conceded Republicans are more excited about scoring a dramatic upset that would send a message to the country than Democrats are about preserving the status quo \u2014 especially as many polls suggest that voters believe the country is on the wrong track,\u201d the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-campaigns-virginia-election-2020-terry-mcauliffe-180e2815215619c97a931355f4cf6876\">wrote<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MINNEAPOLIS CITY QUESTION 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Voters in Minneapolis will decide if they want to abolish their police department&nbsp;and instead use the money to build a \u201cDepartment of Public Safety\u201d to take its place.<\/p>\n<p>City residents were incensed over last year\u2019s death of George Floyd at the hands of the police,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Election Day!But it\u2019s an off year; nationwide elections for all House seats and a third of the Senate seats won\u2019t occur until next November. But still, there are a few interesting elections to watch \u2014 and here they are.VIRGINIA GOVERNORWith a slew of elections in deeply blue states and cities, the biggest election of 2021 is for governor of Virginia. Although President Joe Biden thumped Donald Trump by more than 10 points in 2020, things have gone decidedly south since Election Day.Most polls in the last week have put Republican Glenn Youngkin and Democrat Terry McAuliffe within the margin of error \u2014 although one Fox News poll put Youngkin up by 8 points. But McAuliffe is clearly worried; he\u2019s called on Biden to campaign for his twice, along with first lady Jill Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.During an interview at a campaign stop last weekend, ABC News\u2019 Jonathan Karl said to McAuliffe: \u201cYou\u2019ve got [former Georgia gubernatorial candidate] Stacey Abrams in here, two visits by the president, a visit by the Former President Obama, a visit by the first lady, a visit by the vice president. Why all the \u2014 why do you need all the help?\u201d\u201cWell,\u201d McAuliffe said, \u201cwe did this last time. I mean, we did the same thing in \u201913. I mean, we always bring them in. This is what \u2014 this is the biggest race in America. Who doesn\u2019t want to be here?\u201dIn the waning days of the election, an alleged sexual assault in a school girls bathroom by a male student wearing a skirt \u2014 a story broken by The Daily Wire \u2014\u00a0along with outrage over school boards unilaterally deciding what children will be taught, took center stage. That has reportedly led to high enthusiasm by Republicans to hit the polls.\u201cIn the 2021 election\u2019s closing days, one McAuliffe aide conceded Republicans are more excited about scoring a dramatic upset that would send a message to the country than Democrats are about preserving the status quo \u2014 especially as many polls suggest that voters believe the country is on the wrong track,\u201d the Associated Press wrote last week.MINNEAPOLIS CITY QUESTION 2Voters in Minneapolis will decide if they want to abolish their police department\u00a0and instead use the money to build a \u201cDepartment of Public Safety\u201d to take its place.City residents were incensed over last year\u2019s death of George Floyd at the hands of the police, and some top Democrats began to push for the dissolution of the police department. This year, city leaders cut millions of dollars from its police department, but crime has soared in the city, leading to a counter desire to increase the police budget. In fact, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has been forced to set aside money to recruit more officers.The move is not exactly as portrayed by some outlets. While some have dubbed the move a \u201cdefund the police\u201d effort, supporters say the ballot initiative will require the department to add trained mental health personnel to handle different situations, along with taking away control of the department by the mayor.\u00a0The ballot question is as follows:A \u201cyes\u201d vote supports this charter amendment to:* replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a Department of Public Safety (DPS);* have the mayor nominate, and the city council approve, a person to serve as DPS commissioner; and* remove language from the Minneapolis City Charter on the police department, including minimum police funding requirements and the mayor\u2019s control of the police department.A \u201cno\u201d vote opposes this charter amendment, thus maintaining the existing structure of the Minneapolis Police Department in the Minneapolis Charter.ATLANTA MAYORLike most of the city mayoral elections, the Democrats are set to win easily in Atlanta. While each of the 14 candidates for mayor are listed as \u201cnonpartisan,\u201d they sure all sound like Democrats.Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms decided earlier this year not to seek reelection, opening the way for former Mayor Kasim Reed to jump into the race. He\u2019s a top contender, as is Felicia Moore, the Atlanta City Council president.The city\u2019s spike in crime has been the central issue in the race, and Reed and Moore have taken different approaches to address the growing concerns of voters.With crime exploding in Atlanta and its suburbs, Reed is promising to do the opposite of what Minneapolis proposes \u2014 add more officers to the police department. Moore, on the other hand,\u00a0has\u00a0said\u00a0the city \u201ccan\u2019t just arrest our way out of this crisis.\u201dRoosevelt Searles III, a 24-year-old who was previously homeless, is proposing a \u201c100 day\u201d crime plan that includes creation of several public safety accountability boards, audits of every city department and up to 100 city-owned drones to oversee the city.What\u2019s more, several candidates are residents of the upscale suburb of Buckhead, where top politicians recently made headlines by saying the community could soon secede from Atlanta.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1893882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953025","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}