Virginia governor candidate boosts down-ballot Republicans with PAC money, says state 'ready for a new day'

Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin announced the first wave of spending from his new political action committee (PAC) on Thursday aimed at helping down-ballot GOP campaigns in the state Democrats have dominated in recent years. 

But Youngkin says perhaps more important are the lower-profile races like those Democrats won in 2019, allowing them to gain full control of the state legislature and push an aggressive gun-control agenda in 2020. That's what he says the money in his group, Virginia Wins PAC, is going toward.  "It's school board races and sheriff races and city council races and supervisory board races and commonwealth attorney races and delegate races, particularly this year," Youngkin said in an interview with Fox News. "I have made a long-term commitment of seven figures. And we're going to... support Republican candidates, conservative candidates who can win. And we can reestablish a real voice in these important local offices."