The former governor wants to help the Democrats regain complete control of the state government
ONCE IT became clear that Joe Biden was running for president, the chances that Terry McAuliffe, the former governor of Virginia, would go after the Democratic nomination himself evaporated. Mr Biden, the former vice-president, fills a lane Mr McAuliffe believed could have given him some running room: centre-left in a field of mostly hard-left candidates.
The shift won’t be complete until Democrats again control the legislature. They need two seats each in the House and Virginia Senate to end roughly two decades in the minority and give the party total sway over state government—the governorship, the legislature and the courts—for the first time in nearly 30 years.
But with his popularity dented among younger, rigidly liberal voters who constitute a fast-growing slice of the electorate, Democrats are looking to other big names to fill the void. They include the state’s two US senators—Mark Warner and Tim Kaine—and three new members of the House delegation: Abigail Spanberger, Jennifer Wexton and Elaine Luria. All have successfully harnessed the Democratic Party’s largely suburban, increasingly multi-hued base and regularly communicate with it.
The fund will be available to him now. In campaigning for legislative candidates, Mr McAuliffe will be talking up Mr Northam’s agenda and the promise of more achievements should voters install a Democratic majority.
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