The wrong lesson to learn from GOP victory in Virginia

by Hayes Brown

Republican Glenn Youngkin is poised to become Virginia's next governor, NBC News projected early Wednesday morning. For months now, politicos and pundits have said that the outcome of that race will be a bellwether for Democrats in next year's midterm elections. Already Youngkin's win is being heralded as proof that control of Congress is all but lost for President Biden's party — but it shouldn't be, Hayes Brown writes.

Virginia was "one election among many other elections at the state and local level that maybe, perhaps, if you turn your head and squint, form a cohesive narrative," Brown writes. "The trouble with that is that in trying to smooth out the edges into a recognizable shape, the contours of each race are lost."

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