Abortion emerged as a front-burner issue in the Virginia governor’s race on Wednesday, as the impact of a new near-total ban on the practice in Texas reverberated in one of the year’s marquee political contests.
“I’m gonna be really honest with you — the short answer is, in this campaign I can’t,” Youngkin said. “When I'm governor, and I have a majority in the House, we can start going on offense. But as a campaign topic, sadly, that in fact won’t win my independent votes that I have to get.”Former Virginia Rep. Tom Davis, a Republican, told Yahoo News that the U.S.
But polling shows McAuliffe with only a slight lead over Youngkin, who is little known to most of the state’s voters. Youngkin said he is a “strong proponent” of vaccination and is “encouraging Virginians in every corner of the state to go get the vaccine,” but said that if elected he would overturn current Gov. Ralph Northam’s decision to require state employees to be vaccinated, which took effect Wednesday.
He said that the COVID-19 vaccines are different from other vaccines already mandated for schoolchildren, such as those for measles, tetanus, mumps and rubella. “There’s lots of difference in those vaccines,” Youngkin said. The COVID-19 vaccine “is a vaccine that people don’t fully understand yet. We haven’t done a good job educating people on it.”
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