The Campaign Update: Will Biden Help or Hurt McAuliffe's Chances in Virginia?
One curious thing about Democrat presidents campaigning for others is that they tend to do more harm than good for their own kind. Bill Clinton’s record in campaigning for others was one of abject failure across 20 years, including repeated failures to help his own nominal wife. High profile candidates who have brought Barack Obama in to “help” with their campaigns also have a miserable record of failure. Think Stacey Abrams and Andrew Gillum and Beto O’Rourke as prime recent examples.
There’s something about a current or ex-Democrat president going out on the campaign trail to try to get fellow travelers elected to public office that seems to just rub people the wrong way. Perhaps the stench of socialist failure they carry around with them attaches its putrid aroma to the aspiring candidates despite all the lies they’re telling about being in favor of free markets and individual human rights.
In the Virginia governor’s race, Democrat Terry McAuliffe, long-time bag man for Clinton and one of the most truculent and unashamed professional liars in American history, is about to find out whether this particular record of failure and sulphuric stench will attach itself to him next Tuesday, November 2. McAuliffe, due in large part to his own stupidity on the campaign trail, but also due to the rancid excess of the Sock Puppet’s administration, finds himself locked in a dead heat race with Republican challenger Glenn Youngkin, a 55 year-old business executive who spent 25 years with private equity giant The Carlyle Group.
McAuliffe has seen his polling lead drop from about 5% to 0 in the last 6 weeks, with the biggest part of the drop coming since early October, when he said during a debate that he doesn’t think parents of school-age children should have any say in what their kids are taught. Since making that outrageous, anti-American statement, McAuliffe has repeatedly made the error even worse with non-apology apologies (he is a Clinton guy, after all) and ludicrous discussions of Critical Race Theory in which he will alternatively say that the whole thing is a myth, that he doesn’t know anything about it, or that it’s being taught responsibly in the public schools.