"John McAuliff, a 33-year-old small business owner and former civil servant, was one of the more unlikely Democrats to win election to Virginia's legislature this month, after a campaign in which he could, at times, come off a bit like a Republican."
"What he talked most about was a specific grievance in line with the focus on affordability many Democrats are taking these days, but with a unique twist: the deleterious effects of datacenters and their impact on electricity bills. Most of the year I spent knocking on the doors of folks we didn't think were Democrats either independents or Republicans, and once in a while, a Democrat."
"The northern Virginia district of subdivisions, farmland and quaint little towns that he sought to represent had not elected a Democrat to the house of delegates in decades, so McAuliff would go door to door on an electric scooter, informing those who answered his knocks that he was running to preserve their way of life. He repudiated the term woke, and decried the chaos coming out of Washington DC, an hour-plus drive away."
John McAuliff is a 33-year-old small business owner and former civil servant who won election to Virginia's legislature in a Democratic blowout that secured firm control of the state government. He was one of 13 Democrats elected in the cycle that reversed some national losses from the previous year. McAuliff campaigned in a northern Virginia district that had not elected a Democrat in decades, traveling door to door on an electric scooter and framing his campaign as preserving constituents' way of life. He rejected the term 'woke,' criticized chaos from Washington, and emphasized affordability by highlighting datacenters' effects on electricity bills in Loudoun County.
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