Ex-Va. governor Terry McAuliffe will decline a run for president. Instead, he'll aid state Democrats wary of Richmond's scandals.
By Laura Vozzella and Laura Vozzella Local reporter covering Virginia politics Email Bio Follow Annie Linskey Annie Linskey National political reporter focused on the 2020 presidential campaign Email Bio Follow April 17 at 8:33 PM RICHMOND —Former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe will not join the crowded field of Democrats running for president, according to three people with direct knowledge of his plans, in part because he wants to raise money and campaign for Virginia General Assembly...
But McAuliffe tried to make the case that without jobs — and the economic incentives sometimes used to spur their creation — there is no tax base to bankroll social programs. “I said, ‘I know we have national issues, but I’m concerned about Virginia right now,’ ” said state Sen. L. Louise Lucas , recounting a conversation this week when she urged him not to run. It’s a message Lucas said she had shared repeatedly with McAuliffe since February, when a racist photo surfaced from Northam’s 1984 medical school yearbook page and he acknowledged wearing blackface in a dance contest that year.
McAuliffe, a businessman and entrepreneur, had never held public office when he squeaked past then-Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II in 2013 to become the state’s 72nd governor. The Clintons did not help endear him with the left either, at least not lately. Asked earlier this year on MSNBC whether he thought the former president’s relationship with Monica Lewinsky would be tolerated today, McAuliffe said, “No, I don’t.”In 2017, he was praised for the speech he gave after a woman was killed and two state troopers died in a helicopter crash amid white-supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville.
“His speech after Charlottesville was, I thought, the best, most moving retort to the horror of Donald Trump,” said Lynn de Rothschild, a major Hillary Clinton donor. “You can’t really knock Terry McAuliffe down.”
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