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Jackie Calmes: The losses in Virginia should be a warning to Democrats everywhere

Historic trends are very hard to buck. Like the fact that off-year and midterm elections usually go badly for the party that holds the White House. In Virginia, for example, the candidate of the president’s party almost never wins the race for governor in the year after the presidential election.

Still, Terry McAuliffe — a political pro and successful former governor of Virginia — wouldn’t have run for his old office again if he’d thought he was doomed to lose to Republican Glenn Youngkin. After all, McAuliffe did beat the

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