Republicans Challenge ‘Dead Weight’ Tim Kaine
Republicans Challenge ‘Dead Weight’ Tim Kaine as Youngkin’s Popularity Puts Virginia’s US Senate Race in Play
Republicans seem well positioned to win the U.S. Senate in 2024, since they have only 12 seats to defend compared to the Democrats’ 22. In Virginia, Republicans aim to unseat incumbent Senate Democrat Tim Kaine, slamming him as “dead weight” and noting the success of Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican.
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“I think the earth is moving out from under Tim Kaine’s feet,” Jonathan Emord, another Republican candidate and a constitutional lawyer who boasts the most wins against the Food and Drug Administration in American history, told The Daily Signal in an interview Wednesday. “The coalition that Youngkin created, that supported his election, is now growing.”
Emord boasted about winning the Loudoun County Republican Committee’s June 2 straw poll on the Senate primary, taking 61% of the vote, far ahead of Parkinson and military veteran Eddie Garcia. Former Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, a Libertarian Party leader, endorsed Emord, as did Suparna Dutta, the Indian-American mom whom Democrats voted to remove from the Virginia Board of Education in February.
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The candidates for Kaine’s Senate seat each emphasized parental rights, the key issue that propelled Youngkin to victory in 2021. Parental rights first became an issue during the COVID-19 pandemic when schools closed for months, then required children to wear face masks, then encouraged taking the mRNA vaccines, and parents questioned the rationale behind these policies.
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Emord, the constitutional lawyer, agreed.
He touted his “specific solutions” to problems such as the “destruction of American values, the assault on gender taking place in the schools, the indoctrination of Marxist critical race theory”—cultural issues that he said “hit home just as much as inflation, high gas prices, and unaffordable food.”
Emord noted that most Virginians say they approve of Youngkin in recent polls, while they disapprove of President Joe Biden. A Roanoke College poll in March found that 57% of Virginians approved of the governor, while only 38% approved of Biden.
All 10 of the state Senate candidates endorsed by Youngkin won their primaries Tuesday.
“People of all political stripes, except for the radical leftists, are moving rightward,” Emord said. He warned that experimental interventions performed in the name of “gender-affirming care” cause “permanent injury to kids,” and noted that parents are rightly concerned about them.
“It’s almost transparent to me that Tim Kaine’s agenda for Virginia is an agenda Virginia never adopted or accepted in any way,” he argued.
Emord described a grassroots groundswell, saying that attendees of the Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Festival in Falls Church offered him their support in May.
He described what he called a “huge change in the direction of politics in Virginia.”
“People are saying, ‘Enough!’ They have pushed it too far,” Emord said.
Emord slammed Kaine as “dead weight,” an empty suit who “just follows the party plan.” He noted that Kaine freely called himself “boring” in 2016 when Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton picked him as her running mate.
“We don’t need a boring person in government now,” the Republican candidate said.
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Emord noted that Kaine endorsed state Del. Elizabeth Guzman, a Democrat who in 2020 co-chaired Sanders’ presidential campaign in Virginia. Guzman later wrote a bill redefining “child abuse” to include a parent’s disagreement with a child’s stated gender identity.
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