{"id":962711,"date":"2021-11-03T13:59:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T17:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=962711"},"modified":"2021-11-03T13:59:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T17:59:29","slug":"republicans-poised-to-win-majority-in-virginia-house-of-delegates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-poised-to-win-majority-in-virginia-house-of-delegates\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Poised To Win Majority In Virginia House Of Delegates"},"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%2Frepublicans-poised-to-win-majority-in-virginia-house-of-delegates%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=962711&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>Republicans are poised to take control of the Virginia House of Delegates after flipping several seats in the state\u2019s election on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The party is on track to pick up seven seats in the state\u2019s House, ending the Democratic majority the party won in 2019, according to unofficial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vpap.org\/electionresults\/20211102\/statewide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">results<\/a> from the Virginia Public Access Project. If current leads hold, Republicans will outnumber <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/03\/pure-malpractice-democrats-joe-scarborough-says-the-party-terms-wokeism-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Democrats<\/a> in the state\u2019s House 52 to 48.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirginia voters made an historic statement, delivering a clear rebuke of the failed policies of the last two years and electing Republicans up and down the ballot,\u201d House Republican Leader Todd Gilbert reportedly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/2021\/11\/03\/republicans-claim-house-majority-virginia-after-tuesday-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats still hold control in the state Senate but lost the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/02\/van-jones-glenn-youngkin-delta-variant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">governor<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/03\/winsome-sears-virginia-governor-usa-chant-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lieutenant governor<\/a>&nbsp;and attorney general races on Tuesday. The Republican victories were the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/02\/glenn-youngkin-terry-mcauliffe-virginia-governor-election-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first statewide wins<\/a> in Virginia for the party since 2009.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7314361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"36\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7314361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin and Former Gov. James Gilmore (R-VA) (2nd from R) watch election results come in at the Westfields Marriott Washington Dulles on November 02, 2021 in Chantilly, Virginia. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful to Virginians who place their trust in us, and we look forward to immediately going to work with Governor-elect Youngkin and his administration to restore fiscal order, give parents the voice they deserve in education, and keep our Commonwealth safe,\u201d Gilbert added. \u201cOur work begins now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entirety of the Democratic agenda may have been just a bit too much for the overall voting public in Virginia,\u201d Mark Rozell, the founding dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginia-politics\/virginia-house\/2021\/11\/02\/44bbab6c-36b4-11ec-91dc-551d44733e2d_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>He said Democrats might have \u201cmisread\u201d the anti-Trump sentiment during the previous administration, overestimating how blue Virginia had actually become and enacting policies that went too far in the eyes of voters. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/03\/house-gop-campaign-arm-adds-13-democratic-seats-target-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: House GOP Campaign Arm Adds 13 Democratic Seats To Its Target List)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Democrats took control of state government and they moved forward a boldly progressive agenda when the mandate of the previous four years was much more anti-Trump than it was pro-progressive policy,\u201d Rozell said. \u201cAnd I think that\u2019s a critical point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans are poised to take control of the Virginia House of Delegates after flipping several seats in the state\u2019s election on Tuesday.The party is on track to pick up seven &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"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-962711","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\/962711","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\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962711\/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=962711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}