If things kept going their way – an aide whispered cautiously as returns rolled in – he would become the first Virginian to unseat a sitting attorney general since 1885. This aside startled Jason Miyares. It wasn’t that he didn’t understand the significance of the race or that he worried last minute optimism might jinx the results or that he doubted his message.
What made Miyares pause was the realization that if he’d been more familiar with history, he might not have made it. “I’m so glad I didn’t know that,” he later admitted, “when I was thinking about whether to run.” Good thing too for the GOP: Miyares, along with Gov. Glenn Youngkin, bucked the odds to become the off-year face of a coming Republican wave by winning in a state that President Joe Biden and Democrats had just carried by double digits.
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