Mark Levin: Here's why the Virginia race was a TRUMP WIN



Throughout his campaign, Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe made the governor's race in Virginia all about former President Donald Trump. And guess what? He lost — and so Trump won, argued BlazeTV host Mark Levin.

On the latest episode of "LevinTV," Mark discussed November's "red wave beatdown" of McAuliffe, which has the Marxist left and liberal media in a tizzy.

Mark shared a clip of CNN's Van Jones calling Glenn Youngkin "the delta variant of Trumpism" to paint the Republican as the equivalent of a dangerous contagion.

"My point is that playing on racial fears by demagoguing CRT furthers dangerous aspects of Trumpism," Jones later added on Twitter.

"The delta variant of Trumpism? He thinks he's so clever," Mark said of Jones' statement. "In other words, from his perspective, [Youngkin is] a racist, a bigot, a divider, you know, a loathsome human being because he ran on this issue of Critical Race Theory. Ladies and gentlemen, we didn't start this fight. The American Marxists started it."

"You see, the left — whether they're in the media, politics, academia — they're very confused about how to deal with this. On the one hand, they say [CRT] doesn't exist. On the other hand, they defend it, and if you don't embrace it you must be a racist. So, they're making two opposite arguments, but we know exactly what they are. In the first case, they're lying. And in the second case, they're reprobates," Mark continued.

Mark went on to continue playing the Van Jones video clip.

"[Youngkin] is playing footsie with the worst of Trumpism," Jones claimed in the clip. "He's putting himself forward as a champion of parents, that this is a referendum on parents' rights. But he's not talking about, but he's using all the Critical Race Theory head-fakes and head-nods, which is a softer version of a very virulent kind of anti-black posture."

"That is unbelievable," Mark responded. "Critical Race Theory is a racist ideology that was developed by a Marxist law professor, among others, and has been pushed by them to take down this country. That's why Black Lives Matter, the founders, they don't make any bones about it, that they are doctrinaire Marxists. ... I don't know why it's so complicated. The people who developed [CRT] said they were Marxists. The people who developed it in the 1970s, that's who they were. That's exactly who they were. But now, if you oppose Critical Race Theory, you're part of this Trump, white supremacy, racism, and so forth."

He later added, "The fact of the matter is that because McAuliffe tried to make this a campaign against Trump and he lost — Trump won."

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AOC says 'wokeness' is a term 'almost exclusively used by older people,' throwing shade at James Carville



Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) blasted the use of the term "wokeness" to describe progressivism, saying those like veteran Democratic strategist James Carville who argue the Democrats lost big in last Tuesday's elections because the party is too "woke" are using language "almost exclusively used by older people."

"How can news outlets even attribute words to me I didn't say," asked Ocasio-Cortez in a tweet linking to a WSET-TV report that claimed she said Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe lost the Virginia gubernatorial race because he wasn't "woke" enough.

"I said there are limits to trying to mobilize a campaign with a 100% moderate strategy without mobilizing the base. Said nothing [about] 'wokeness' which is a term almost exclusively used by older people these days [by the way]," she wrote.

How can news outlets even attribute words to me I didn\u2019t say?\n\nI said there are limits to trying to mobilize a campaign with a 100% moderate strategy without mobilizing the base. Said nothing abt \u201cwokeness\u201d which is a term almost exclusively used by older people these days btwhttps://twitter.com/abc13news/status/1456642083524071431\u00a0\u2026

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) 1636128175

Continuing, the democratic-socialist lawmaker said the only people using the word "woke" are Carville and "Fox News pundits," implying that term is targeted towards a right-wing audience and Democrats shouldn't be concerned about it.

"And before people disingenuously complain 'woke' is denigrating to older people, it's actually pundits like Carville using terms like 'woke' to insult voters under 45 that's denigrating," Ocasio-Cortez added, disparaging Carville, the lead strategist for the 1992 campaign that put then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton in the White House, as a mere "pundit."

"Don't wonder why youth turnout falls when Dems talk about them like this. We need everyone," she said.

And before people disingenuously complain \u201cwoke\u201d is denigrating to older people, it\u2019s actually pundits like Carville using terms like \u201cwoke\u201d to insult voters under 45 that\u2019s denigrating.\n\nDon\u2019t wonder why youth turnout falls when Dems talk about them like this. We need everyone.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) 1636129097

Days ago, Carville spoke to "PBS Newshour" about Tuesday's elections and blamed "stupid wokeness" for Democrats losing in Virginia and progressives severely underperforming elsewhere.

"I mean, this 'defund the police' lunacy, this take Abraham Lincoln's name off of schools. I mean that — people see that," Carville said. "And it really has a suppressive effect on all across the country on Democrats. Some of these people need to go to a woke detox center or something."

Republicans won competitive district attorney races in Long Island, New York and increased a GOP legislative majority in Niagara County. In New York City and in Minneapolis, Minnesota mayoral candidates that rejected the "defund the police" movement claimed victory.

In Seattle, a law-and-order Republican won a race for city attorney, defeating a radical left-wing former public defender who described herself as a police abolitionist.

Carville's point is that the Democratic Party is losing touch with voters by becoming preoccupied with niche racial and social justice politics.

Ocasio-Cortez, on the other hand, argued after the elections that the Democratic Party did not do enough to embrace its far-left element and failed to rally support for a progressive agenda.

"I know that Virginia was a huge bummer," Ocasio-Cortez said in an Instagram video. "And honestly, if anything, I think that the results show the limits of trying to run a fully 100% super moderated campaign that does not excite speak to or energize a progressive base and frankly, we weren't even really invited to contribute on that race."

She nailed it. Take her advice Democrats - McAuliff wasn\u2019t progressive or woke enough. So in the midterms only follow AOC\u2019s model. Run the MOST woke and progressive in the land. And make sure to tell parents they\u2019re racist and shouldn\u2019t be involved in their kids education again.https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1456262697973026825\u00a0\u2026

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) 1636036027

She accused moderate Democrats of enabling "race-baiting" by Republicans, saying the moderates' strategy "demoralizes the base you're supposed to protect and turn out while also ceding white swing voters to the right w/ inadequate responses or silence."

McConnell says GOP victories show Democrats' 'radical social takeover' is 'the last thing Americans want'



Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday chastised Democrats, saying that GOP victories in Tuesday's elections show there is no mandate for a "radical social takeover" of the country.

Speaking on the Senate floor the day after Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated Democratic former Gov. Terry McAuliffe in Virginia's gubernatorial race, McConnell said Democrats have overreached after their narrow victory in 2020 and that American voters don't want a far-left progressive agenda.

"Last night was a difficult evening for Democrats. The Democratic Party has wildly misread their mandate and let the radical left run the country. Local Democrats let teachers' unions keep schools shut months longer than necessary and told parents they didn't get a say in what their kids are learning," McConnell said.

The Republican leader blamed Democrats for rising prices of consumer goods before criticizing how President Joe Biden has handled the economy, foreign policy, immigration, and other "government-created crises."

He also took the opportunity to criticize the Democrats' proposed $1.75 trillion spending bill, which was originally a $3.5 trillion bill until moderate Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) forced Democrats to compromise to win his support.

"The American people will not stand for this. That's what voters told Democrats last night. The results from different parts of the country demonstrate this was in large part a referendum on national issues," he said. "But it's not too late. Democrats should listen to the voters, drop this reckless taxing and spending spree, and stop trying to ram through a socialist transformation that the American people never asked for. The radical transformation that Democrats are writing behind closed doors would compound every mistake their party has made."

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"This radical social takeover is the last thing Americans need and the last thing Americans want. The voters of America just gave our colleagues a preview of that fact last night. They should pull back from the brink while they can," McConnell added.

Tuesday night was a rousing success for the Republican Party nationwide.

In addition to Youngkin's victory in the gubernatorial election, Virginia Republicans won the races for lieutenant governor and attorney general for the first time since 2009. Virginia Republicans also reclaimed a majority in the lower house of the state legislature.

In New Jersey, Republican Jack Ciattarelli ran closely with incumbent Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, and the race is too close to call. When Murphy was first elected in 2017, he won handily by 14 points over his Republican opponent.

Meanwhile in Minneapolis, voters rejected a controversial proposal to replace the police department with a "Department of Public Safety," defeating a measure supported by "defund the police" activists.

The National Republican Congressional Committee responded to Tuesday's results by expanding its list of incumbent House Democrats targeted for defeat by 13.

"In a cycle like this, no Democrat is safe," NRCC Chairman Tom Emmer said. "Voters are rejecting Democrat policies that have caused massive price increases, opened our borders, and spurred a nationwide crime wave."

Whitlock: MSNBC’s ‘Three Stooges’ — Maddow, Reid, and Wallace — invite election viewers to hell on social media’s earth



Last night I watched MSNBC's election coverage. It was anchored by Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, and Nicolle Wallace, the Mo, Sha'Carri, and Shirley of the Alphabet Mafia.

The three stooges of sexual identity, racial identity, and gender identity presented a portrait of American reality far different from my interpretation.

In their view, critical race theory doesn't exist and certainly isn't being taught in American schools, an investigation into Thomas Jefferson's worldview is a high priority, Jan. 6 was a violent bloodbath that nearly toppled our republic, and Virginia's gubernatorial race was a referendum on re-instituting Jim Crow laws.

The picture painted by Maddow, Reid, and Wallace likely explains why Republican Glenn Youngkin won his race for governor and why he'll be joined in office by Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears, the first black woman to win a statewide election in Virginia.

It's difficult to retain and sustain power with lies. The political left and its propagandists in corporate media have been lying nonstop for the past year. A wise con man conceals his lies with occasional truths. Politics attract con men, both left and right.

Big Tech and its social media apps convinced Democrats to be unwise, to abandon truth completely. Big Tech believes its Twitter and Facebook algorithms are in control of truth.

Youngkin and Sears believe in a much higher power, a truth spelled out in the Bible and backed by the blood of Jesus.

Democrats and their pundits will spend the coming days and months trying to figure out how the state of Virginia elected President Joe Biden by a 10-point margin and 12 months later elected Youngkin and Sears. They will, of course, blame racism, Donald Trump, the Proud Boys, and Thomas Jefferson, and eventually they will shred Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe as a horrible candidate.

They will not admit that voters rejected their reliance on lies. They will not admit that Twitter and Facebook baited them into believing that lies supported on the social media matrix could be converted into real-world truths. It's not just comedian Dave Chappelle. Ordinary American citizens are snapping out of the woke coma induced by Twitter.

"Twitter isn't a real place."

Twitter is where the Three Stooges go to have their lies confirmed. On social media, you can earn likes and retweets pretending that January 6 was the modern-day Pearl Harbor. Yesterday, Nicolle Wallace claimed police were "maimed by flag poles" during an insurrection.

The truth is a bunch of frustrated taxpayers, at the behest of FBI informants, staged a mostly peaceful protest inside the Capitol. An incompetent police officer shot and killed a tiny, non-threatening woman, Ashli Babbitt. In comparison to the riots, looting, and arson we witnessed across the country in the Summer of St. George Floyd, January 6 was a 1950s-style sorority panty raid.

On social media, you can garner likes and retweets firing off tweets claiming that 2021 America is no different from 1921 America. Late last night, as it became evident Youngkin would win, Jemele Hill tweeted: "It's not the messaging, folks. This country simply loves white supremacy."

The tweet has 16,000 likes and nearly 5,000 retweets. Hill thinks she's tweeting hard truths to power. She's just running to Twitter to get her insanity and lies confirmed. I'm sure Joy Reid did the same thing after ranting on TV that Republicans are a danger to our national security.

Is Winsome Sears a danger to America? She immigrated to America at age 6. She joined the Marines before she was an American citizen. She's lt. governor-elect of the state of Virginia. She's black. So is her husband. So are her kids. Are they all a danger?

MSNBC's Three Stooges argued that Republicans have constructed a fantasy world, an unfair political terrain that makes it difficult for Democrats to compete. Nicolle Wallace argued that schools are not teaching critical race theory. She backed Terry McAuliffe's lie that the state of Virginia was not implementing critical race theory into schools.

These lies are too easily debunked. While serving as governor in 2015, McAuliffe's department of education explicitly directed public schools to embrace critical race theory. The Virginia Department of Education website recommends CRT. Check out this string of tweets.

The left has abandoned the truth. Men are birthing people. Biden appointee Rachel Levine made history as the first female four-star admiral. Police pose a much greater threat to black men than gang violence. George Floyd is a hero. Biological men should be allowed to compete against women in sports. The only way to survive COVID is with three masks, six vaccines, and in constant isolation.

The world the Three Stooges believe exists is on Twitter. It's a satanic world where the truth is under constant attack. Virginia voters live in a different world, a world that answers to a higher power than Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg.

Marine vet Winsome Sears celebrates win in Virginia lieutenant governor race with 'USA' chant, says she's 'living proof' of American dream in patriotic speech



Winsome Sears, an immigrant, a Marine Corps veteran, and now the first black woman elected lieutenant governor in Virginia, delivered a triumphant and patriotic speech at Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin's victory party early Wednesday, claiming victory in her own right after Tuesday's election.

"I'm telling you that what you are looking at is the American dream," Sears said, with her husband and two daughters standing beside her.

Sears, a Jamaican immigrant and naturalized U.S. citizen, previously made history as the first black Republican woman elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2002, defeating a 20-year Democratic incumbent. She served one term before unsuccessfully running for Congress in 2004.

Now, she's made history again by defeating Democrat Hala Ayala in Virginia's lieutenant governor race, winning an estimated 51% of the vote Tuesday.

Prior to entering politics, Sears was the director of a Salvation Army homeless shelter. She also owns an appliance repair store in Virginia and has previously served as vice president of the Virginia Board of Education.

In her speech, Sears celebrated the progress the United States has made on civil rights for non-white Americans and immigrants since her father came to the U.S. in 1963 with just "$1.75" in his pocket.

"I am not even first-generation American," Sears said. "When I joined the Marine Corps, I was still a Jamaican. But this country had done so much for me, I was willing to die for this country."

She then led the jubilant crowd in a "USA" chant before continuing.

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"I say to you, there are some who want to divide us and we must not let that happen. They would like us to believe we are back in 1963 when my father came. We can live where we want. We can eat what we want. We own the water fountains. We've had a black president elected not once, but twice, and here I am, living proof," Sears said, to wild cheers.

"In case you haven't noticed, I am black. And I have been black all my life, but that's not what this is about," she continued.

"What we are going to do is we are going to now be about the business of the Commonwealth," she said. "We have things to tend to. We are going to fully fund our historically black colleges and universities. ... We're going to have safer neighborhoods, safer communities, and our children are going to get a good education. Because education lifted my father out of poverty, education lifted me out of poverty, education will lift us all out of poverty. We must have marketable skills so that our children can not just survive but they will thrive, and they will create generational wealth. That's what this is about."

"I didn't run to make history," Sears said. "I just wanted to leave it better than I found it."

Sears' victory is part of a Republican sweep of Virginia's statewide races, with Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin defeating former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe for governor and Republican Del. Jason Miyares defeating incumbent Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring in that race.

Republicans have not won any of these statewide races since 2009.

As of Wednesday morning, the GOP also appeared to be on track to capture control of the House of Delegates.

CNN's Van Jones, David Axelrod rip fellow Democrats as 'annoying and offensive,' 'out of touch,' 'moralizing' amid big election night loss



Amid the shocking political turnaround in Virginia that culminated with Republican Glenn Youngkin's defeat of far-left Democrat Terry McAuliffe for governor Tuesday night, CNN's Van Jones and David Axelrod reflected on how their own Democratic Party managed to lose so big in a blue state.

'Annoying and offensive'

Jones surmised that Democrats have been living in a political bubble and not paying attention to voters' real day-to-day needs — and paid for it at the ballot box.

"I think that the Democrats are coming across in ways that we don't recognize that are annoying and offensive, and seem out of touch in ways that I don't think show up in our feeds, when we're looking at our kind of echo chamber," Jones said, mimicking someone scrolling through a smartphone. "And I think that this is a message here."

CNN's Van Jones admits Democrats are “annoying and offensive."youtu.be

'Moralizing' messages: 'We will tell you what is right'

Axelrod echoed Jones' take, adding that Democrats also have come across as preachy to the point that they're dictating what voters should believe and how they should behave.

He noted that the Democratic Party has "become a more college-educated, urban party in coalition with minority voters, and the messages tend to be moralizing. It's like, 'We are going to tell you; we will tell you what is right.' And no connection to people who work with their hands, people who work with their backs, rural voters, so that's part of the problem."

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How are folks reacting?

Twitter users responding to Jones' comments posted on the Republican National Committee Research page couldn't agree more:

  • "Oh honey, it's not that they just come across that way, they are," one commenter said.
  • "Yeah people are tired of all that woke nonsense," another user offered. "We just want to know what is going on and live as peacefully as we can with one another."
  • "YA THINK?" another commenter mockingly asked. "What idiot thought it was a good idea to portray concerned parents as 'domestic terrorists'? 'Defund the Police' wasn't a big enough failure, so Democrats went to war with parents?"
  • "'Seem out of touch'?" another user wondered. "The fact that they don't discuss the border crisis, the Afghanistan fiasco, defunding the police, the crime, the failing public schools are all evidence of that. Those problems do not exist to them."

MSNBC reporter blames lies about critical race theory for Democratic flop in Virginia. But she's the one lying.



MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace argued Tuesday night that GOP propaganda and fake fomentation over the rise of critical race theory in schools is what led to a Republican rout of Democrats in Virginia's statewide elections.

"Critical race theory, which isn't real, turned the suburbs 15 points to the Trump insurrection endorsed Republican," Wallace said on the air while covering Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin's shock victory in Virginia's gubernatorial race.

As counting continued late into the night Tuesday, Youngkin maintained a healthy lead over Democratic candidate and former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe.

Republicans also appeared to take the races for lieutenant governor and attorney general in the state, which President Joe Biden won by more than 10 percentage points just one year ago.

During her show on MSNBC, a clearly rattled Wallace blasted Republican attacks on the educational implementation of critical race theory, an ideology that re-examines society through a racial lens and presumes that race is a constructed concept used primarily to exploit people of color.

The "Deadline: White House" host even tried to whitewash the theory by claiming it "isn't real" despite mounds of evidence to the contrary.

"Which isn't real"\n\nA reminder that the Virginia Department of Education website explicitly mentions Critical Race Theory as part of a best practice for establishing a curriculum: https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1454470598168510464\u00a0\u2026https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1455693642866298887\u00a0\u2026

— AG (@AGHamilton29) 1635901736

Critics on Twitter quickly charged Wallace with spreading misinformation, citing materials recently obtained by conservative journalist and filmmaker Christopher Rufo.

On Oct. 30, Rufo pointed out that under Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D), public education officials endorsed the explicit use of critical race theory as an "important analytic tool" to "further spur developments in education."

He also noted, "Right now, on its website, the Virginia Department of Education recommends 'Critical Race Theory in Education' as a 'best practice' and derives its definitions of 'racism,' 'white supremacy,' and 'education equity' explicitly from 'critical race theory.'"

Right now, on its website, the Virginia Department of Education recommends "Critical Race Theory in Education" as a "best practice" and derives its definitions of "racism," "white supremacy," and "education equity" explicitly from "critical race theory."pic.twitter.com/QVSJVpju2A

— Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) 1635607788

Radical progressive changes in schools in the state — including the teaching of critical race theory and the adoption of transgender-affirming policies — are believed to have played a large part in the GOP's Tuesday night victories.

Yet McAuliffe, like Wallace, suggested in the final days of his campaign that critical race theory is nothing more than a "racist dog whistle" used to misleadingly rile up Republican voters.

The former governor also claimed that the theory has "never been taught in Virginia," even though in 2015, his very own administration reportedly instructed public schools to embrace it.

Desperate Democrat Terry McAuliffe closes bid for Virginia governor with out-and-out lie about Donald Trump and Glenn Youngkin



Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia Terry McAuliffe really, really, really wanted former President Donald Trump to campaign with his GOP opponent in the Old Dominion.

McAuliffe, the former governor seeking another term (Virginia does not allow governors to serve consecutive terms), did everything he could to tie Republican nominee, Glenn Youngkin, to Trump, who lost Virginia to Biden by more than 10 points in 2020.

Democrats and their sympathizers across the state were determined to convince every voter that Youngkin was nothing short of a tried-and-true MAGA warrior — and a racist one to boot. They even went so far as to orchestrate a racist hoax against Youngkin, attempting to tie him to Charlottesville-style white supremacists whom the media have repeatedly — and lyingly — claimed Trump called "very fine people."

Now, with polls showing Youngkin holding a slight lead in a state where a Republican has not won statewide office since 2009, Team McAuliffe and the Democratic Party are getting increasingly desperate.

So it likely surprised no one when McAuliffe blatantly lied about a nonexistent Youngkin-Trump event Monday night as he wrapped up his campaign.

According to Politico, the Democratic nominee "simply invented" an event that did not exist. That's right, McAuliffe straight-up lied as he sought to once again taint Youngkin with Trump-ness.

As Politico noted, the Democrats became increasingly "desperate" as they watched Youngkin's raucous rallies compared to McAuliffe's "modest and listless" crowds.

From Poltico's Playbook on Tuesday:

TERRY MCAULIFFE wanted GLENN YOUNGKIN and DONALD TRUMP to campaign together so badly that when it didn't happen, McAuliffe simply invented a Youngkin-Trump event that didn't exist.

“Guess how Glenn Youngkin is finishing his campaign?" McAuliffe told a modest crowd outside a Fairfax brewery Monday night at his final rally. “He is doing an event with Donald Trump here in Virginia."

That was a lie. Trump wasn't in Virginia and he never campaigned with Youngkin, though he did make the case for the GOP candidate — “fantastic guy!" — during a brief “tele-rally."

Thirty miles away, at the Loudoun County Fairgrounds, a crowd several times the size of McAuliffe's was waiting for Youngkin to take the stage. You got a hint of why McAuliffe was desperate to manufacture the fake Trump event. While McAuliffe has boundless energy — “Sleep when you're dead!" he likes to say — his Monday audiences in Richmond and Fairfax, where we caught up with him, were modest and listless.

Youngkin's were large and rollicking, with many of the trappings of a MAGA rally — a similar dad rock playlist, hats and flags and T-shirts paying homage to the former president — but, to the great disappointment of Democrats, not Trump himself.

But the lie was to no avail.

No Trump.

No media echo chamber repeating the lie.

Nothing.

McAuliffe even admitted to reporters Monday that "from a political perspective" Trump not inserting himself into the Virginia race was a letdown, Politico noted. And CNN reported that the Democrat lamented that Trump no longer was on Twitter.

Terry McAuliffe told CNN after his event in Richmond that “fatigue and exhaustion from Trump” has clearly been an i… https://t.co/zVlybueYvi

— Dan Merica (@merica) 1635799765.0

The final RealClearPolitics average for the Virginia governor race had Youngkin up 1.7 points.

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Juan Williams claims defending parents' rights is racist dog whistle: 'Code for white race politics'



Fox News political analyst Juan Williams claimed in a new essay that defending parents' rights is meant to sow racial division while masquerading "as a defense of little children."

What did Williams say?

Parents' rights have become a prominent issue in recent months as parents nationwide dispute a number of issues impacting schools, including COVID-related restrictions, radical LGBT policies, and certain teachings on race.

But according to Williams, defending parents' rights — which became a prominent issue in the Virginia gubernatorial race — is a racist dog whistle, or as the headline of his recent essay at The Hill claims, "code for white race politics."

"It is a campaign to stop classroom discussion of Black Lives Matter protests or slavery because it could upset some children, especially white children who might feel guilt," Williams wrote.

By making parents' rights a prominent issues, Williams charged that "Trump-imitating Republican" have struck "political gold."

Without evidence, Williams directly connected concerns over parents' rights to defending Confederate monuments, the 2017 Charlottesville riots, the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, and segregation.

"There is a long history behind the latest racist political appeals. It is not long ago that racist southern politicians rallied against integration with an argument for 'states' rights,' a call to be free of federal laws seeking to end segregation," Williams wrote. "Now the message is that white parents are being ignored when they complain that their children are uncomfortable learning about racism."

Williams even expressed support for the letter the National School Boards Association sent President Joe Biden, demanding federal intervention over angry parents confronting school boards. The NSBA has since apologized for the letter.

Anything else?

Williams' essay reads like Democrat Terry McAuliffe's talking points.

In the closing weeks of the Virginia gubernatorial race, McAuliffe's two biggest attacks on his Republican opponent, Glenn Youngkin, focused on Youngkin's position on parents' rights and former President Donald Trump. Although Trump has not played a role in the election, McAuliffe has continually tried to tie Youngkin to Trump.

In the end, Williams claimed the fight to defend parents' rights has nothing to do with parents' rights, but everything to do with "stirring up racial division."

Pharrell Williams speaks at Terry McAuliffe campaign event, but doesn't tell Virginians to vote for him



Music mogul Pharrell Williams spoke at a campaign event for Democrat Terry McAuliffe on Friday, where, prior to introducing McAuliffe, he did not tell the crowd they should vote for McAuliffe.

What happened?

While on the campaign stage to seemingly stump for McAuliffe, Williams — a Virginia native — made it clear that he was not there to tell Virginians which candidate they should support.

"I'm not here to tell you to vote for a person or vote for a party," Williams said. "I'm asking you to vote and be a part of the process of being a Virginian."

Several seconds later, Williams continued, "So again: When you go home, if you haven't voted already, speak to your neighbor no matter what color they are, no matter what color they're wearing. Speak to your fellow Virginian. That's how we show love to one another."

"Last, but not least, I'm going to bring, um, uh, the former governor, and maybe the governor to be again, um, Terry McAuliffe," Williams added.

Despite the unenthusiastic introduction, McAuliffe has claimed that Williams endorses his candidacy.

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The campaign of Glenn Youngkin, the Republican challenging McAuliffe, interpreted Williams' comments as telling the assembled crowd that voting for Youngkin is OK.

"At Terry McAuliffe's event, Pharrell Williams told the crowd it's OK if they vote for Glenn Youngkin," the Youngkin campaign tweeted.

Anything else?

In the final days of the gubernatorial campaign, McAuliffe's campaign has enlisted a host of high-profile celebrities and politicians — including President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and former President Barack Obama — to campaign on McAuliffe's behalf.

Harris, in fact, campaigned for McAuliffe at the same event in Norfolk where Williams unenthusiastically introduced McAuliffe.

Polling leading up to the Nov. 2 election demonstrate why McAuliffe's campaign is pulling out all the stops to woo Virginia voters.

According to the FiveThirtyEight average of polls, McAuliffe's lead over Youngkin has evaporated completely. Whereas McAuliffe was leading Youngkin by a nearly 8-point average in August, Youngkin now holds a narrow lead over McAuliffe.