Glenn Youngkin Built a Path for a Post-Trump Republican Party
Youngkin's upset win in a state that went big for Clinton and Biden offers lessons for the Republican Party.
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If you roll back the clock to early August, the Virginia gubernatorial contest was a pretty subdued race. The RealClearPolitics (RCP) polling average at that time showed Republican Glenn Youngkin trailing Democrat Terry McAuliffe by almost six points.
Many observers assumed that V…