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For Republicans, the 2021 Virginia gubernatorial election is the stuff of campaign legend.
An outsider with little initial name recognition defeated a well-known and well-funded former governor and Clinton family associate, delivering the GOP its first statewide win in the commonwealth since 2009, doing so one year after former President Joe Biden held the state for Democrats by a 10-point margin.
The drastic swing put wind in the sails of a Virginia Republican Party that had floundered for years. Gov. Glenn Youngkin
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