October 26, 2021 | Research
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Friends In Low Places

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With An Increasingly Tight Race, Terry McAuliffe Is So Desperate For Reinforcements He’s Calling In A Friend He Openly Said Was “Unpopular” In Virginia


“UNPOPULAR” BIDEN HITS THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL WITH MCAULIFFE

VIRGINIANS ARE FACING RISING PRICES UNDER DEMOCRATS

  • Under Joe Biden and Democrat Governor Ralph Northam, Virginians are paying more for the everyday goods and products they need.
  • Nationally, consumer prices jumped 5.4 percent over the past year, rising at the fastest rate in 13 years.
    • In the South, consumer prices are up 5.8 percent, even higher than national levels.
  • Virginia gas prices have risen 42 percent under Biden and are up 57 percent – over a dollar per gallon – from last October. 
  • Used car prices in Virginia, a key inflation indicator, rose over 26.6 percent – or nearly $6,400 – since last year.

DEMOCRATS ARE FAILING VIRGINIANS

  • While prices are rising and businesses are struggling to find employees, Biden and McAuliffe want to slam Virginians with trillions more in taxes and spending.
  • Under Northam, Virginia is in the top ten states for least jobs recovered after the coronavirus pandemic and ranks 49th for the best state to start a business in.
    • Virginia businesses are struggling to maintain normal operations due to labor shortages, including Richmond’s Gelati Celesti Ice Cream which has been forced to cut hours as a result.
    • Garbage is piling up on street curbs in Fairfax County, Virginia because of worker shortages.
    • Virginians are fleeing high taxes and an unfriendly business environment, with more people moving out of the state than into it.
  • Now is not the time for Terry McAuliffe’s tax hikes and rubber stamp for Biden’s job-killing agenda.

BIDEN AND MCAULIFFE WAGE A WAR ON PARENTS

  • The Biden administration does not believe parents should be in charge of their kid’s education.
    • Biden’s Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said that parents should not be the “primary stakeholder” in their children’s education.
  • McAuliffe doesn’t believe that “parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
  • Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland sent a memo directing the FBI to investigate concerned parents because of a letter from the National School Board Association (NSBA) comparing parents at school board meetings to “domestic terrorists.”
  • A Fox News poll shows that parents are galvanized over this issue in Virginia, with 57 percent of parents believing they should have a say over what their kids are being taught in school.
    • Missy Pratt, Fairfax County parent: “According to the DOJ, apparently holding school board and school leadership accountable is tantamount to domestic terrorism. This is not terrorism, this is accountability.”
    • Asra Nomanu, Fairfax County parent: “My shirt says very simply, I am a Mom not a domestic terrorist.”
    • Carrie Lukas, Virginia mom: “ I don’t trust Virginia public schools anymore. I don’t trust that my local school board will prioritize students' needs over the desires of union workers.”
    • Rachel Pisani, Loudoun County parent: “Every parent that I know is concerned about what their child is learning in school, and we don’t want a divisive curriculum.”

MCAULIFFE HAS SMEARED CONCERNED PARENTS AS “RACIST”

MCAULIFFE ALREADY FAILED VIRIGNIA ONCE

  • Under McAuliffe’s leadership, crime in Virginia spiked, with the state’s rate of homicides increasing by 43 percent, rapes increasing by 25 percent, and assaults increasing by 7 percent.
  • McAuliffe said he would have let a Democrat bill that would allow abortions up until the moment of birth to become law.
  • McAuliffe suggested it is easier for Americans to buy a gun than to vote, showing he has no clue what Virginia’s gun laws are. 
  • McAuliffe was caught up in a Chinese cash-for-votes scandal, where he invited a major Chinese donor under investigation by the Justice Department to Hillary Clinton’s personal home in 2013.
  • McAuliffe was responsible for releasing violent criminals from prison and restoring the voting rights of violent former felons.
  • McAuliffe flip-flopped on repealing Virginia’s right-to-work law, vowing to repeal it after originally promising he would “never change” it.
  • McAuliffe “wildly inflated” coronavirus statistics, misleading Virginians and earning four Pinocchios from The Washington Post.

MCAULIFFE IS A BLACKFACE APOLOGIST