Video: DPVA Chair Lamont Bagby Says “Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Winsome Earle-Sears, and Glenn Youngkin are making it very easy for us to get our message across because they’re showing exactly what happens when you let extremists have power.”

• “[…] We are already competing all across the Commonwealth, in red areas and blue areas […] Kamala Harris did very well in Virginia. She won eight now-seated Republican seats in the House of Delegates. We’re going after those eight seats and more because we want to make sure we give Don Scott, the speaker of the House, the majority that he needs to deliver so that we can get this legislation to Abigail Spanberger’s [desk], that same legislation that we got to Glenn Youngkin’s desk and he’s vetoed most of it.”
• “[…] Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Winsome Earle-Sears, and Glenn Youngkin are making it very easy for us to get our message across because they’re showing exactly what happens when you let extremists have power. It’s hurting everyone’s pocketbooks, it’s hurting our classrooms. Who ever thought that we’d be trying to defend the Department of Education? That we wouldn’t have a governor or lieutenant governor to stand up and say, ‘That’s not what we want here in Virginia.’”

ABC7 interview:

• “[…] What we want to do is make sure we win in November. There’s a lot of things at stake, but it all hinges on winning in November. Folks are hurting, and it’s more pain to come not only from DC but right here in Virginia. The governor just handed us back a budget that vetoes a ton of stuff that helps working Virginians and our young students and teachers […] We want to protect them, the ballot box, and the only way to do that is for folks to show up in November and show Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Glenn Youngkin, Winsome Earle-Sears and the whole gang that we are committed to protecting democracy.”
• “[…] The only way I see us being able to really combat what’s going on in D.C. is making sure that we have Democrats as governor, lieutenant governor, and AG, and we increase our margin in the House of Delegates. That is the way that we will be able to make sure that Virginians get fair wages, protect our education system, protect health care, Medicaid, social security, investments in schools, [and] roads. All those things are under attack.”
• “And it’s not as if we’re speculating. It’s happening on a federal level in just [Trump’s] first two months. And Glenn Youngkin has been at it ever since he’s been governor, and he has not stopped, even up until as recent as this week when he passed down those vetoes on our budget and a lot of legislation that I just mentioned. He vetoed legislation where we were attempting to make lives better for Virginians.”

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