Glenn Youngkin
Republican Glenn Youngkin was elected Virginia's governor in November 2021. He defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe, who was governor from 2014 to 2018.
Youngkin was reared in Richmond and Virginia Beach and won a basketball scholarship at Rice University, where he earned an engineering degree. He earned a MBA from Harvard University. Youngkin worked 25 years at the Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm based in Washington with $230 billion in assets. He retired in 2020 as CEO after taking the company public. His net worth is estimated at $254 million, according to The Washington Post.
Youngkin's 2021 campaign for governor is his first bid for public office.
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Virginia tax receipts “in just the last four years alone have grown 50%.”
In his election as governor, “We won cities that no Republican had ever won.”
“In 2016, Democrats suggested that the election was stolen.”
“In Virginia, we actually do protect same-sex marriage.”
Virginia is "one of only a handful of states that actually taxes our veterans’ retirement.”
Virginia’s economic growth “has stalled at less than 1% per year for eight years.”
“Sixty percent of (Virginia's) children don’t meet national proficiency standards…”
Virginia’s “education standards for math and reading are now the lowest in the nation.”
“Virginia has the lowest standards for math and reading of all 50 states.”
“Terry (McAuliffe) calls in his friend Joe Biden to actually put the DOJ on Virginia parents.”