Miyares Wins Virginia GOP AG Nod With 52%
Delegate Jason Miyares narrowly defeats fellow conservative Chuck Smith by a margin of 52-48.
Ranked choice voting was a long and winding road for four candidates, but the end result proved that the process elected and rewarded the most conservative candidate who can win.
Virginia Beach Delegate Jason Miyares bested a field of four candidates to emerge as the winner of the Virginia RPV Convention with a final tally of 52% against Virginia Beach attorney Chuck Smith at 48%. Jack White finished in third with Leslie Haley finishing in a close 4th place.
Observers were mildly surprised to see how well Smith did, not just with his strong 2nd place showing in the first round but his successive building upon that showing. While Miyares turned out more votes, Smith’s campaign strategically targeted western localities where the weighted delegate votes were more difficult to come by.
The strategy almost paid off.
Nevertheless, Miyares maintained his 1st place showing and never relinquished it, establishing himself as a strong challenger to incumbent Attorney General Mark Herring (D) who has been embroiled in his own blackface scandal in the 1980s. Herring faces stiff opposition from Delegate Jay Jones (D-Norfolk).
The RPV Convention ballot tally continues tomorrow at the Richmond Marriott with the gubernatorial contest up for grabs. Seven candidates are vying for the opportunity to take on Northam’s hand picked successor — former Democratic governor and veteran politico “Fast Terry” McAuliffe of Greentech fame.
Yes — this guy.
The good news is that breaking out the crystal ball doesn’t do anyone a bit of good at this rate — the votes are in and all the prognostication in the world won’t change the outcome.
Just have to wait to find out who ends the Northam-McAuliffe era. If the implosion of UK Labour across the pond is any indication, it’s that critical race theory and the out of step ideas of the left aren’t selling — and the Democrats know they are in trouble.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are now going to have an absolutely violent civil war over the direction of their party as one guy in blackface (Herring) and another guy in blackface (Northam) who endorsed the guy who told him to resign (McAuliffe) tell a bunch of minority candidates that their votes might be welcome… but their leadership is far from welcome.
So much for the theory that the Byrd Machine is dead at DPVA. But it’ll be fun to watch the media fawn over the divisions in the Democratic Party while trying to magnify our own.
The generic ballot is D+2 and dropping folks. Don’t let them tell you otherwise.
Shaun Kenney is the editor of The Republican Standard, former chairman of the Board of Supervisors for Fluvanna County, and a former executive director of the Republican Party of Virginia.