#Democrats will take full control of #Virginia’s legislature, a major defeat for #Republicans and @Gov.GlennYoungkin’s strategy

CNN Projection: Democrats will take full control of Virginia’s legislature, a major defeat for Republicans and Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s strategy to embrace non-MAGA messaging.

Democrats will win full control of the Virginia legislature, CNN projects, effectively ending Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s hopes of governing with Republican majorities and enacting his conservative agenda.

Virginia Democrats will flip the state House while retaining their majority in the state Senate.

Control of the state legislature was at stake in this year’s election, with Republicans defending their narrow majority in the state House. Youngkin, who has been touted as a potential late entrant into the 2024 Republican presidential race currently dominated by Donald Trump, spent much of the past few months rallying GOP voters toward a hoped-for governing trifecta.

The elections were also seen, for better or for worse, as a referendum on Youngkin’s non-MAGA brand of conservative politics and the state House of delegates and state Senate candidates who subscribe to it.

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