America's political media is laser-focused on the state of Virginia Governor's race between former governor Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Younkin.
Virginia, while a state that has trended blue in recent years - with President Biden winning it by 10 points last year - has now been officially declared by the nonpartisan Cook Political report as a toss up. And many Republicans anecdotally feel very confident that Glenn Younkin can pull off a close win.
Yet this is a race that Terry McAuliffe ought to be easily winning given how Biden performed in the state in the last general election.
Instead he's flailing, with Democrats bringing everyone under the sun to campaign for him, from President Obama and Vice President Harris to President Biden himself.
Sadly for him, the biggest guns the Democrats can deploy are shooting him in the foot by reminding the average Virginian voter just how out of touch their economic and social policies truly are.
America's political media is laser-focused on the state of Virginia Governor's race between former governor Terry McAuliffe (second from right) and Republican Glenn Younkin. This is a race that McCauliffe ought to be easily winning given how Biden performed in the state in the last general election. Instead he's flailing, with Democrats bringing everyone under the sun to campaign for him, from President Obama and Vice President Harris to President Biden himself
When President Obama (left) turned up to campaign for Terry McAuliffe he poured fuel on the fire when called what is happening in Loudoun County 'phony trumped up culture wars and the fake outrage that right wing media pedals to juice their ratings'. He also went on to accuse anyone who has criticism of school boards and administrators of stoking anger. Kamala Harris (right) also appeared with McAuliffe at a campaign event Thursday night in Dumfries, Virginia
Many Republicans anecdotally feel very confident that Glenn Younkin can pull off a close win against McAuliffe
And the problem for Democrats goes ways beyond the borders of the Old Dominion. Because in many ways Virginia has been a Petri dish of the very worst social and economic ramifications from Covid and of the extremism raging in our culture wars.
Going forward no matter how election night plays out, this campaign has already shown just how much damage the first year of the Biden administration has done to the good will of working class, blue-collar Americans.
With diabolical timing for the Democrats, Virginia is the scene of one the biggest stories in the country right now. Specifically the scandal of how the Loudoun County Superintendent Scott Ziegler and the school board covered up a report that a male student in a skirt assaulted a female student in a girls' bathroom - while the board was considering a controversial transgender rule.
An email last week revealed Ziegler had notified the board about the assault a month before he publicly declared he had no record of bathroom assaults.
Prosecutors have confirmed that the same man accused in the May incident also is accused of another sexual assault in October at another school.
The father of the alleged victim was called a 'domestic terrorist' for showing up at a shoolboard meeting justifiably angry and despondent and unceremoniously dragged out as if HE was the criminal.
The more details that emerge about this story, the more disgusted I feel about just how far the insanity of the culture wars has taken us and just how dangerous it is for Democrats to pretend all these issues are somehow fringe and that if you care about them you are unhinged or ignorant.
Yesterday, there was a walkout of students from the school where the assault took place in protest of their right to be protected at school and not have allegations of, God forbid, other sexual assaults dismissed because of a politically correct school board.
Yet when President Obama turned up to campaign for Terry McAuliffe he poured fuel on the fire when called what is happening in Loudoun County 'phony trumped up culture wars and the fake outrage that right wing media pedals to juice their ratings'.
He also went on to accuse anyone who has criticism of school boards and administrators of stoking anger.
With diabolical timing for the Democrats, Virginia is the scene of one the biggest stories in the country right now. Specifically the scandal of how the Loudon County Superintendent
