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Editorial: Jump on in, Glenn Youngkin. The Republican water is all orange.

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin greets guests during an Economic Club of Washington event at the Marriott Marquis on Sept. 26, 2023, in Washington, D.C. The event was hosted by club president David Rubenstein, the co-founder and co-executive chairman of the Carlyle Group, where Youngkin worked for more than 2 years and was co-CEO from 2017 to 2020..

At the thoroughly weird, mostly soporific Republican presidential debate last Wednesday night, no candidate emerged as the leading competitor to candidate Donald Trump. Nikki Haley, Chris Christie, Vivek Ramaswamy and Ron DeSantis all had their moments, but it looked to us mostly like a seven-way tie for second place, otherwise known in Trumpland as the losing position.

According to polling averages, Trump is currently leading the national GOP primary contest by a stunning 40

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