Terry McAuliffe speaks during a campaign rally in Dumfries, Va., October 21, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The Virginia Democrat is at it again — and we shouldn’t be surprised. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T erry McAuliffe is at it again. On Sunday he openly embraced yet another stolen-election conspiracy theory rather than admit that his party legitimately

Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin speaks in McLean, Va., July 14, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin said Saturday that he will ban critical race theory from schools on his first day in office if he is elected governor of Virginia. “We all know education starts with curriculum,” Youngkin said at a rally

Left: Doug Wilder at an Obama campaign rally in Richmond, Va., in 2008. Right: Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe at a campaign rally in Richmond, Va., October 23, 2021. (Bill Clark/Roll Call/Getty Images; Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Democratic elder statesman Doug Wilder slams his own party and its nominee for taking black voters for granted. NRPLUS MEMBER

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) holds her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 17, 2021. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) on Sunday declined to say whether she plans to run for reelection in 2022 and said she would have to discuss the decision with her family first. The

Former President Barack Obama speaks during an Obama Foundation event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 13, 2019. (Lim Huey Teng/Reuters) Former president Barack Obama will hit the campaign trail Saturday to rally support for Democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe in the final stretch of the close race against Republican opponent Glenn Youngkin. The polls

Terry McAuliffe campaigns for governor with President Biden in Arlington, Va., July 23, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) If the results on Virginia’s Election Day 2021 look anything like the current polls, the prognosis for Democrats a year down the road will be grim. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O ne of the hazards of projecting national trends from

A voting sign is in Bronx, N.Y. June 23, 2020 (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) Tucked inside a supposedly ‘moderate’ voting bill is a provision that would empower a lone bureaucrat to wield outsized control over elections. Deep inside the Democrats’ latest “compromise” proposal on elections and campaign finance is a new cup of poison for free speech

Attorney John Eastman (left) speaks next to Then-President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) In extensive conversations with NR, the Trump legal adviser behind a fiercely disputed memo advising Pence to reject Biden electors claims it doesn’t reflect his own views.   NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O n January

Attorney John Eastman (left) speaks next to Then-President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) In extensive conversations with NR, the Trump legal adviser behind a fiercely disputed memo advising Pence to reject Biden electors claims it doesn’t reflect his own views.   NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O n January

Glenn Youngkin (Win McNamee/Getty Images) In 2017, the Hampton Roads Black Caucus endorsed Democrat Ralph Northam for governor. Four years before that, the group threw its support behind another Democrat, Terry McAuliffe. This year, for the first time in its history, the HRBC made headlines when it announced that by a simple majority vote of

Voters cast their ballots to vote in state and local elections at Robious Elementary School in Midlothian, a suburb of Richmond, Virginia, U.S. November 5, 2019. (Ryan M. Kelly/Reuters) In response to The Richmond Public Schools Division Is Doing Terry McAuliffe No Favors in Virginia As Charlie notes, the Richmond, Virginia schools abruptly deciding that

Left: Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin speaks during a campaign event in McLean, Va., July 14, 2021. Right: Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe participates in a campaign event at Lubber Run Park in Arlington, Va., July 23, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) The Virginia gubernatorial race between Republican Glenn Youngkin and Democrat Terry McAuliffe has tightened into

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks to reporters following the weekly Senate lunch at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., September 21, 2021. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked Democrats’ attempt to open debate on the Freedom to Vote Act, a pared-back version of the elections legislation that Democrats attempted to pass earlier this

Terry McAuliffe participates in a campaign event at in Arlington, Virginia, July 23, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) In remarks at the Virginia Chamber of Commerce this morning, Terry McAuliffe proclaimed to the audience that “women CEOs” won’t bring their businesses “to a state where someone is banning abortions.” The Democratic gubernatorial candidate boasted that, in his

Colin Powell on December 9, 2001. (Sergei Karpukhin CVI/Reuters) In Jim Geraghty’s excellent tribute to the life and career of Colin Powell, he teases one of the great counterfactuals in modern political history: What if Powell decided to run for president in 1996? I have some thoughts. Powell formally announced he was not going to

President Joe Biden participates in a campaign event for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe at Lubber Run Park in Arlington, Va., July 23, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) Amid the heated Virginia gubernatorial race, Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe has released a campaign ad in which he attempts to clarify a comment he made at a recent debate against Republican opponent

Autumn Looijen and Siva Raj (Siva Raj) Three San Francisco school board members are heading to a recall election early next year after the city’s elections department confirmed the organizers of the recall collected and submitted enough signatures from registered voters. The recall election for school board president Gabriela López, vice president Faauuga Moliga, and

Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin speaks in McLean, Va., July 14, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) The Trafalgar Group has released a poll showing Republican Glenn Youngkin with a one point advantage (48.4-47.5 percent) over Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia’s gubernatorial race. The survey of 1,095 voters conducted between October 11 and 13 has a margin of

Nicholas Kristof appears on Real Time with Bill Maher (Screenshot via YouTube) Blue-state blues, pockets of red resentment, and a columnist candidate may make the 2022 Oregon governor’s race especially interesting. Although Oregon governor Kate Brown assumed her position only after a 2015 influence-peddling scandal forced her predecessor to resign, her reelection three years later

A view of Truist Park during game four of the ALDS between the Atlanta Braves and the Milwaukee Brewers, in Cumberland, Ga., October 12, 2021. (Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports) Six months after Major League Baseball pulled its All-Star Game out of Georgia to protest the state’s new election-security law, Atlanta is back in the national

Terry McAuliffe participates in a campaign event at in Arlington, Virginia, July 23, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) Democrats profess to be alarmed at attacks on the legitimacy of elections. They feign horror at anyone who wants to investigate election integrity. If they really believe this, they sure do have a funny way of showing it. The

(eakrin rasadonyindee/Getty Images) Amid the heated school board fight over critical race theory that has roiled the sleepy town of Guilford, Conn., community members are alleging that Democratic and independent school board candidates mailed illegitimate absentee ballots to constituents. Five parents new to the local politics scene are running on the GOP ticket for the

Former President Donald Trump speaks to his supporters during the Save America Rally at the Sarasota Fairgrounds in Sarasota, Fla., July 3, 2021. (Octavio Jones/Reuters) Former President Trump is urging Republicans not to vote in upcoming elections unless the “fraud” of the 2020 elections is uncovered. “If we don’t solve the Presidential Election Fraud of

Left: Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin speaks during a campaign event in McLean, Va., July 14, 2021. Right: Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe participates in a campaign event at Lubber Run Park in Arlington, Va., July 23, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) A new CBS poll of Virginians shows that school curriculums — particularly those pertaining to

Glenn Youngkin, Co-Chief Executive Officer of the Carlyle Group, attends a session at the 50th World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2020. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters) A spokeswoman for the campaign of Glenn Youngkin, the Republican nominee to be the next governor of Virginia, clarified the candidate’s position on taxpayer funding of

Voters at the polling station in PS 250 during the New York City primary mayoral election in Brooklyn, N.Y., June 22, 2021. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) While I have immense respect for our former colleague Jonah Goldberg and agree with the end state he is seeking, I must side with Charlie against Jonah’s idea of a Reaganite-conservative

Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe participates in a campaign event at Lubber Run Park in Arlington, Va., July 23, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) As the Virginia gubernatorial race between Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin continues to tighten, McAuliffe — long thought to be the prohibitive favorite — is calling on party bigwigs to assist

Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin speaks during a campaign event in McLean, Va., July 14, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic nominee to be the next governor of Virginia, can expect renewed scrutiny of his grasp on the effects of COVID-19 on his state, and the policy responses those effects warrant. On Monday,

Stacey Abrams speaks to the media about the U.S. Senate runoff elections in Atlanta, Ga., January 5, 2021. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) Apparently, election trutherism is only a problem when President Trump engages in it. Last week, I called out Stacey Abrams for making the same kind of stolen-election claims regarding her 2018 gubernatorial loss that President

Former President Donald Trump after his speech during a rally at the Iowa States Fairgrounds in Des Moines, October 2021. REUTERS/Rachel Mummey (Rachel Mummey/Reuters) Former President Trump held a rally for supporters at the Iowa state fairgrounds on Saturday, teasing a presidential run for 2024. Trump was joined by Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and