Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) won reelection in the Commonwealth of Virginia on Tuesday night, defeating Republican challenger Hung Cao.
Kaine’s seat was considered relatively safe, although Republicans were emboldened in the final weeks of the campaign. Democrats moved money to the state in the weeks before the election as Vice President Kamala Harris’s polling faltered.
Harris prevailed in the state as well, although her tight margins rightfully suggested trouble for Democrats.
That strategy might be questioned by political historians, although with Trump headed for an electoral romp, its difficult to see how Democrats could have stopped a Trump victory.
The commonwealth has shifted towards Democrats in recent elections, but Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s victory in 2021 and polling gains by Donald Trump in the final weeks of the campaign gave Republicans hope.
Youngkin ran against “wokeness” in schools, an issue Trump…
