Virginia’s new ‘moderate’ governor goes full California on Day One

Virginia’s new ‘moderate’ governor goes full California on Day One


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“Nobody elected him to be [President Franklin Delano Roosevelt], they elected him to be normal and stop the chaos,” then-Rep. Abigail Spanberger harshly said of then-President Joe Biden in 2021, after her Democratic Party lost the governorship of Virginia. Her point was that Biden had followed a radical agenda that betrayed how he had run and how the media had presented him: as a moderate.

Biden’s sudden radicalism in his first year in office, she seemed to be saying, lost her

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