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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) gave a last-minute endorsement to Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin on Sunday, six days away from the May 8 convention that will determine the Republican candidate for the 2021 governor’s race. The Texas Republican plans to campaign with Youngkin, a former CEO of the Carlyle Group, at various events during the final week leading up to Saturday’s vote. “Glenn is the best chance Republicans have at winning in Virginia this year,” Cruz contends in a video announcing his endorsement: Youngkin said in a statement, “It’s such an honor to have the support of Ted Cruz, a true conservative champion.” “We’re running the most dynamic grassroots campaign Virginia has ever seen, and it’s going to be a lot of fun to have him join me on the trail in the final days,” he added. Youngkin, who built his success through private equity and has been able to self-fund much of his campaign, has promoted himself as a political outsider and recently vowed not to … [Read more...] about Ted Cruz Backs Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Glenn Youngkin in Final Stretch of GOP Race

Sen. Ted Cruz Rafael (Ted) Edward Cruz NYT's Stephens says Ted Cruz more 'unctuous' than Eddie Haskell The Hill's 12:30 Report - Presented by ExxonMobil - Trump, Cheney trade jabs Cruz backs Glenn Youngkin in Virginia GOP gubernatorial primary MORE (R-Texas) formally threw his support behind Republican Glenn Youngkin in the Virginia gubernatorial race less than a week before the commonwealth's GOP convention. “Glenn is the best chance Republicans have of winning in Virginia this year,” Cruz said in a video message released on Sunday. The Texas senator referred to Youngkin as a political outsider in the video, highlighting the Republican's past work in the business sector as a private equity CEO. ADVERTISEMENT "He's a successful business leader. He's managed hundreds of billions of dollars in assets. He's done business deals all over the world, and he's taken a strong stand against China," he said. "He knows how to build businesses and to create … [Read more...] about Cruz backs Glenn Youngkin in Virginia GOP gubernatorial primary

T he president went down to Georgia, but he wasn’t looking for a soul to steal. Instead, he met with Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter Biden marks 100th day plugging jobs plan in Georgia The Hill's 12:30 Report - Fauci predicts significant 'drop' in COVID cases as vaccinations near threshold Biden picks dandelion flower for Jill from White House lawn MORE , perhaps the best ex-president we have ever had, at least in comparison to his manifold failures during his tenure in the White House. It’s unclear if Biden was going down there to gain wisdom, inspiration or to just pay his respects. ADVERTISEMENT It looks from the outside, though, that the current president wants to use the same playbook used by Carter during his one disastrous term in the Oval Office. Like the former president, Biden is constantly embarrassed by the antics of a family member. For Carter, it was his brother Billy, who inspired Falls City Brewing Company to name a beer after him and got … [Read more...] about Feehery: Biden seems intent on repeating the same mistakes of Jimmy Carter

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Former Virginia House Speaker Kirk Cox (R), who is running for governor, expressed the urgency of restoring statewide in-person learning for school-aged children during an interview Monday with host Alex Marlow o n Breitbart News Daily . Cox, a longtime state lawmaker who was a public school teacher for 30 years, said his state’s current Democrat leadership under Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) does not “have another second right now” to spare in reopening schools that have been closed or partially closed to in-person learning because of Democrat coronavirus mandates. “We’ve got three to six months of learning loss in reading and math right now,” Cox said. “You’ve got kids who have missed an entire senior year. … You’ll never get that back. You’ll simply never get it back.” He added that he is pushing a proactive tutoring effort, that he himself as a former teacher will partake in, to aid in repairing the learning loss damage already done. Listen: Cox emphasized the gravity … [Read more...] about Virginia Republican Kirk Cox Blasts Democrat School Closures for ‘Learning Loss’: Kids Will ‘Never Get That Back’