Virginia, Which Nobody Expected To Be in Play for 2024 Election, Is Turning Toward Trump

In the Old Dominion, the Democrats’ coalition is cracking even as Biden’s gruesome foreign-policy record helps heal divisions within the GOP.

Drew Angerer/Getty Images — Governor Youngkin on June 15, 2023, at Arlington, Virginia. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

DANIEL McCARTHYJun. 5, 2024 03:44 AM ET

Donald Trump became president by flipping states no Republican nominee had won in nearly 20 years.

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DANIEL McCARTHY

Mr. McCarthy is a vice president at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the editor-in-chief of its magazine Modern Age: A Conservative Review. He is also a regular contributor to the Spectator’s World edition. He has a long association with the American Conservative, and his writing has appeared in an array of publications, including the New York Times, USA Today, First Things, the Claremont Review of Books, Reason, the Daily Telegraph and the New York Post.

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