Joshua Cole: Last News

appeared at political events with members of known anti-LGBTQ groups — has leaned into the issue of schools, in an effort to rally his political base and convince some independents and Democrats to back him by touting stories about alleged “indoctrination” and potentially objectionable content in school curricula or in books being carried by school libraries.The two issues that Youngkin has focused the most on are the alleged introduction of “critical race theory” — a collegiate-level theory that examines the intersection of race and various social, justice, or cultural issues — in schools, and the passage of policies that affirm transgender students’ gender identities, their pronoun usage, and their ability to access gender-affirming

Danica Roem (D-Manassas), who won the race for the state’s 30th Senate District in western Prince William County.With her victory, Roem became the first out transgender state senator in Virginia history, and only the second out transgender state senator in the nation, following Delaware’s Sarah McBride, who is now running for Congress. Roem won by 3 percentage points — the tightest margin of any winning Democratic Senate candidate — fighting back a barrage of last-minute money from Youngkin-aligned political action committees that flooded the district.She also faced attacks from her Republican opponent, Bill Woolf, who seized upon the issue of transgender student participation on female-designated sports teams — running transphobic ads that were temporarily pulled from airing on cable — in an attempt to cast Roem as out-of-step with Virginia voters.

To keep our progress, we must elect [Democratic gubernatorial nominee] @TerryMcAuliffe and Democrats up and down the ballot.”Among those endorsed alongside Roem are House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn (Fairfax Station), Delegates Lashresce Aird (Petersburg), Alex Askew (Virginia Beach), Joshua Cole (Stafford), Kelly Fowler (Virginia Beach), Wendy Gooditis (Boyce), Nancy Guy (Virginia Beach), Elizabeth Guzman (Dale City), Dan Helmer (Fairfax Station), Candi King (Dumfries), Martha Mugler (Hampton), Mike Mullin (Newport News), Shelly Simonds (Newport News), Schuyler VanValkenburg (Henrico), and Rodney Willett (Henrico), as well as several Democrats challenging incumbent Republican delegates.Roem was first elected in 2017, defeating former Del.