McLEAN, Virginia — “Thwarting Trump as much as possible. In a big, big way. So I’m normally Republican, but I’m voting Democrat.” Linda, a Catholic woman in her 70s, was clear that she didn’t support Abigail Spanberger, Jay Jones, or the Virginia Democrats in general. In fact, she was totally opposed to the transgender ideology Spanberger has defended.
What mattered to Linda was knocking President Donald Trump down a peg. Linda told me she voted for Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) four years ago, when Democrats held the White House. She says she also voted for Mitt Romney for president in 2012.
And in consistently voting against the party in power, whichever party is in power, is what Virginia seems to do.
Eight years ago, during Trump’s
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