How Youngkin Won More Evangelicals in VA Than Trump

With his signature fleece vests and suburban dad appeal, Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin spent the final weeks of his campaign laser-focused on an issue that has long animated White evangelicals: public education. For decades, White evangelicals have gotten riled up over issues ranging from evolution to desegregation to prayer in schools, and in Virginia's latest gubernatorial race, the culture wars in schools were front and center. Ahead of Election Day, Youngkin railed against critical race theory, often using CRT -- an intellectual movement that examines the way policies and laws perpetuate systemic racism and is not part of the public school curriculum -- as a way to describe schools' efforts to teach children about race and racial disparities.