Lawrence O’Donnell Warns Not To Read Too Much Into The Virginia Election Results

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell puts the Virginia results into position and reminds radical not to overanalyze them.

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O’Donnell said connected MSNBC:

There’s ever a hazard of overinterpretation of governors’ races and what they might mean for Washington. When you look astatine Virginia, it’s such a peculiar concern there. You person — it’s a one-term state. They truly lone privation their governors to service 1 term. So you’re asking Virginia voters to benignant of defy their ain habits by restoring a erstwhile governor to go governor, again, which they’ve lone done erstwhile before. They did it with a Democratic candidate who ran successful 1965 I think it was. And past successful 1973 helium ran again and won arsenic a Republican. So what Terry McAuliffe was trying to bash contiguous has never been done. And truthful determination was 4 years of a McAuliffe governorship that was on the line, that was being evaluated by voters, and there was — you know, Youngkin doesn’t have a record. He has that vantage of not having a record. 

It’s a precise peculiar contention to effort to bring into the calculus of what does it mean successful Washington. That won’t halt radical from doing it. They’ll beryllium doing it successful the House. They’ll beryllium doing it successful the Senate. There are members of the House who person ne'er served successful the minority earlier successful the House of Representatives. They volition beryllium proceeding things about what it is to service successful the minority. There volition beryllium radical who are trying to interest them. About what they request to bash in terms of this legislating negotiating going connected present connected the ground successful bid to get this bill across the decorativeness enactment arsenic fast as possible. There volition beryllium a caller urgency in that. It volition beryllium a fear-based urgency that wasn’t determination past week. 

Virginia was a authorities predetermination that Democrats should gully excessively galore nationalist conclusions about. Democrats did get a sensation of the strategy that Republicans are apt to usage successful 2022, but Virginia’s gubernatorial word bounds makes it a unsocial state, and 1 that doesn’t lend itself good not nationalist extrapolation.