A day after claiming the race was “not about [Donald] Trump,” Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe evoked the former president again in a string of Election Eve tweets and couldn’t appear to stop talking about him at a rally in Fairfax, Virginia.
McAuliffe often brought up former President Trump on the campaign trail and in the press for months when talking about Republican opponent Glenn Youngkin’s agenda. CNN’s Dana Bash even joked that she would take a swig of her nearby drink every time McAuliffe said Trump’s name during their interview earlier this month.
And so McAuliffe surprised reporters in Virginia Beach Saturday when he told a group of supporters the race was “not about Trump.” It was a “significant shift,” in tone, the media observed.
