I don’t like following races which are Safe D no matter what, but the worst thing about the VA GOV race is that we’re going to be inundated with takes telling us that this race "in a key swing state is the first real test of Republicans' electoral prospects in a post-Trump era and a bellwether for next year's midterm elections." Everyone’s going to act like VA is a pure Tossup state which Republicans have no business losing (it only voted for Biden by double digits because it was anti-Trump!) and then predict a Democratic wave in 2022 when the party inevitably wins the gubernatorial election and every other statewide office by 7+ points. The "National Republicans in disarray" headlines are gonna write themselves.
I agree. America doesn't realize how democratic the state has become. The connotation with southerners and being republican is fresh in many people's minds.
