Democrats, Media Allies Diagnose Youngkin’s Virginia Victory as Evidence of Racism

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Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin speaks during his election-night party in Chantilly, Va., November 3, 2021.

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Welcome back to “Forgotten Fact-Checks,” a weekly column produced by National Review’s News Desk. This week, we catalog the progressives who insisted that Glenn Youngkin’s victory in Virginia was attributable to his campaign’s winking at racists, remember the fanatical champions of the discredited Steele Dossier, and hit more media misses

Democrats Run Back the Racism Canard

Isaac Schorr

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Isaac Schorr

Isaac Schorr is an editor at Mediaite and a 2023–2024 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow at the Fund for American Studies.

Brittany Bernstein

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Brittany Bernstein

Brittany Bernstein is the deputy news editor of National Review Online.

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