Plus: Winsome Sears, Virginia’s Next Lieutenant Governor, Makes History as First Black Woman to Win Statewide
November 3 2021
Good morning from Washington, where liberal pundits are trying to explain GOP nominee Glenn Youngkin’s triumph in the Virginia governor’s race over returning Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe. Mary Margaret Olohan, reporting from a Youngkin celebration, also has video of school parents who back the Republican. Fred Lucas reports on the outcomes of New York’s mayoral race and New Jersey’s gubernatorial contest. On the podcast, Virginia Allen chats with Heritage Foundation scholar Hans von Spakovsky about his new book on reforming American elections. On this date in 2014, One World Trade Center opens in Manhattan as part of a complex replacing the twin towers and other buildings destroyed in the 9/11 attacks.
Sears opposed critical race theory in schools, telling Fox News, "It supposedly is to help someone who looks like me and I'm sick of it; I'm sick of being used by the Democrats."
New Jersey reportedly has 1 million more registered Democrats than Republicans. But as of early Wednesday morning, the gubernatorial race was too close to call.
In a departure from Mayor Bill de Blasio’s policies, Mayor-elect Eric Adams opposes defunding police and supports restoring some form of stop-and-frisk.
“There were more lawsuits filed last year before the election trying to change the laws and the rules governing the election process than in any year in our entire history,” says Hans von Spakovsky.
