{"id":962085,"date":"2021-11-03T11:29:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T15:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=962085"},"modified":"2021-11-03T11:29:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T15:29:32","slug":"turnout-soared-in-virginia-as-angry-voters-had-their-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/turnout-soared-in-virginia-as-angry-voters-had-their-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Turnout Soared In Virginia As Angry Voters Had Their Say"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fturnout-soared-in-virginia-as-angry-voters-had-their-say%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=962085&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>What a difference a year makes.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly a year ago today, Joe Biden crushed President Donald Trump in Virginia. Biden won with 54.11% of the vote in 2020, while&nbsp; Trump came in with just 44%.&nbsp; That 10.11% winning margin was the largest for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1944, when Franklin D. Roosevelt beat Thomas Dewey in the state 62.4% to 37.4%.<\/p>\n<p>But Biden\u2019s agenda quickly went right in the dumper, with members of his own party thwarting his massive spending plans. What\u2019s more, nearly everything else has also gotten worse since Biden took office: gas prices and inflation have soared, crime is out of control, and the border crisis has exploded.<\/p>\n<p>All that \u2014 plus some local issues like school boards \u2014 brought angry voters to the polls on Tuesday. More than 3.2 million Virginians voted, a 27% increase from 2017, the last election for governor. In that race, Democrat Ralph Northam defeated Republican Ed Gillespie 53.9% to 45%.<\/p>\n<p>But in 2017, just 2,584,906 people voted in the state. This year, with 99% of the vote counted, 3,277,931 state residents cast ballots, <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/polls\/governor\/virginia\/?ex_cid=rrpromo\">according<\/a> to FiveThirtyEight.<\/p>\n<p>That surge in turnout gave Republican Glenn Youngkin the win. He received 1,675,171 votes \u2014 a nearly 500,000-vote increase from Gillespie, who got 1,175,731 votes. On Tuesday, Democrat Terry McAuliffe pulled in 193,585 more votes than Gov. Ralph Northam \u2014 1,602,760 versus 1,409,175. But it still wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n<p>Exit polls showed independents went heavily for Youngkin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYoungkin also carried male voters in this year\u2019s election by a roughly 12-point margin, White women without college degrees by about 50 points and White evangelicals by about 76 points \u2014 all broader margins than then-President Donald Trump&nbsp;posted over&nbsp;Joe Biden among those demographics in the 2020 election and than Republican Ed Gillespie posted over his gubernatorial rival in 2017,\u201d CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/02\/politics\/virginia-exit-polls\/index.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThe early exit polling also suggests a slim advantage for Youngkin in the suburbs, an area that shifted toward Democrats during Trump\u2019s presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While some pundits say Youngkin\u2019s win shows the power of Trump, Youngkin kept his distance from the former president, deciding not to join a rally Trump held by telephone the day before the election.<\/p>\n<p>CNN reported: \u201cVirginia voters in this year\u2019s election hold negative views of both President Biden and Trump. Biden, who won comfortably in Virginia last year, now faces approval ratings significantly underwater in the state, with roughly 45% approving and the rest disapproving \u2014 likely a consequence both of his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a difference a year makes.Exactly a year ago today, Joe Biden crushed President Donald Trump in Virginia. Biden won with 54.11% of the vote in 2020, while\u00a0 Trump came in with just 44%.\u00a0 That 10.11% winning margin was the largest for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1944, when Franklin D. Roosevelt beat Thomas Dewey in the state 62.4% to 37.4%.But Biden\u2019s agenda quickly went right in the dumper, with members of his own party thwarting his massive spending plans. What\u2019s more, nearly everything else has also gotten worse since Biden took office: gas prices and inflation have soared, crime is out of control, and the border crisis has exploded.All that \u2014 plus some local issues like school boards \u2014 brought angry voters to the polls on Tuesday. More than 3.2 million Virginians voted, a 27% increase from 2017, the last election for governor. In that race, Democrat Ralph Northam defeated Republican Ed Gillespie 53.9% to 45%.But in 2017, just 2,584,906 people voted in the state. This year, with 99% of the vote counted, 3,277,931 state residents cast ballots, according to FiveThirtyEight.That surge in turnout gave Republican Glenn Youngkin the win. He received 1,675,171 votes \u2014 a nearly 500,000-vote increase from Gillespie, who got 1,175,731 votes. On Tuesday, Democrat Terry McAuliffe pulled in 193,585 more votes than Gov. Ralph Northam \u2014 1,602,760 versus 1,409,175. But it still wasn\u2019t enough.Exit polls showed independents went heavily for Youngkin.\u201cYoungkin also carried male voters in this year\u2019s election by a roughly 12-point margin, White women without college degrees by about 50 points and White evangelicals by about 76 points \u2014 all broader margins than then-President Donald Trump\u00a0posted over\u00a0Joe Biden among those demographics in the 2020 election and than Republican Ed Gillespie posted over his gubernatorial rival in 2017,\u201d CNN reported. \u201cThe early exit polling also suggests a slim advantage for Youngkin in the suburbs, an area that shifted toward Democrats during Trump\u2019s presidency.\u201dWhile some pundits say Youngkin\u2019s win shows the power of Trump, Youngkin kept his distance from the former president, deciding not to join a rally Trump held by telephone the day before the election.CNN reported: \u201cVirginia voters in this year\u2019s election hold negative views of both President Biden and Trump. Biden, who won comfortably in Virginia last year, now faces approval ratings significantly underwater in the state, with roughly 45% approving and the rest disapproving \u2014 likely a consequence both of his declining ratings since taking office, and the composition of the electorate that turned out to vote this year.\u201d\u201cOnly about one-fifth of voters say they view their votes as a way to express support for Biden, with nearly 3 in 10 saying it\u2019s a way to express opposition and the remaining half of the electorate saying Biden wasn\u2019t a factor. Trump isn\u2019t any more popular in the state: Only about 4 in 10 view him favorably,\u201d the liberal news outlet reported, citing exit polls.While the economy was the top issue, local education was a close second. \u201cAbout one-third of Virginia voters called the economy the most important issue facing the state, placing it ahead of other topics that dominated headlines in the closing days of the race. Just under one-quarter said education is most important, about 15% chose taxes, about 14% chose the coronavirus pandemic and just about one-tenth chose abortion,\u201d CNN reported.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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