Opinion Column By Stephen J. Farnsworth, Stephen Hanna and Cassandra Atkinson November 14, 2021

Glenn Youngkin demonstrated that you cannot get all that many people to hate vanilla.

Throughout the 2021 gubernatorial campaign, the first-time candidate offered himself as a largely generic pro-business Republican, not overly pro-Trump but not opposed to him either. While Youngkin talked about election integrity, a favorite Republican issue this year, he did not campaign on the claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Nor did Youngkin hit the hustings as a pro-life cultural warrior, as have so many previous statewide Republican candidates.

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