“What I learned last year, I think, is something that is repeating itself this year,” Youngkin, who was elected last year as a Republican in a Democratic-leaning state, said during the conference.

“What I learned last year is that there are real kitchen-table concerns every night in Virginia families, in American families,” the governor continued. “[They have] concerns about inflation and what’s going to their job and [whether] can they make ends meet and just see grocery prices going through the roof and to see utility bills and college tuition and all of the things that families worry about. That is such a big deal.”

Youngkin said voters want to be confident in their job security, want their neighborhoods to be safe and want schools they can trust. He said these are the same issues that Virginians focused on in the 2021 gubernatorial election and expressed optimism that Republicans will take control of the House and the Senate and do well in gubernatorial races throughout the country.

(via Off the Press)