And so I return to this thread I forgot about for nearly a year until it suddenly crossed my mind again.
The GOP didn't win a Virginia race, they swept all three.
As expected, a lot of the takes on the thread aged rather poorly but that was honestly to be expected. I doubt anyone even thought Youngkin was going to be the nominee at the time.
I always thought there was a chance the GOP could and possibly even win all three if the environment was right for them but I myself didn't expect the GOP to win a race until the very end. I thought Herring would narrowly lose at the end and that's exactly what happened.
I thought AG would flip due to Herring's scandal, and LG was always precarious, but based on 2013, it looked to me like McAuliffe would have a lot more appeal to the Biden Republicans than he actually did (perhaps he would have against a Trumpier nominee?).
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