In this week’s legislative elections, Virginia Republicans won 60% of the popular vote, gained 7 seats in the House of Delegates to give them an historic 2/3 supermajority in that chamber, and gained 2 seats in the Senate to gain the majority in that chamber. The only reason that the Republicans did not gain more seats in the Senate was the hyperpartisan redistricting done by the Democrats who currently control that chamber.
But to the leftist Washington Post, the Republicans did not win a mandate [1] to do anything with their majorities. To the leftist “news” media, mandates are only earned when Democrats win elections.
The question now is whether the Republicans will listen to the WaPo or to the 60% of Virginia voters who elected them.