Some strategists see a way forward for Youngkin given his enormous personal wealth, ties to the donor class, his appeal to evangelicals as the founder of a nondenominational church, and his ability to project an upbeat, basketball-dad image while serving up red meat to the MAGA base.
His reputation for swing-district electoral magic now rests on legislative elections, with all 140 seats in the General Assembly on the ballot. Youngkin needs the GOP to hold onto the House of Delegates and flip the narrowly divided state Senate to have any chance of wresting big wins out of the General Assembly for the rest of his four-year term.In the first three months of the year, Youngkin’s PAC reported raising almost $2.
On Thursday morning, Youngkin rolled out endorsements in seven state Senate races and 12 House of Delegates contests. Six of them involve contested primaries; in the highest-profile race, Youngkin came out in favor of Del. Emily M. Brewer in her Senate nomination fight against former NASCAR driver Hermie Sadler.