Abigail Spanberger, the Democrat running for governor of Virginia this fall, has chosen as her running mate, a state senator named Ghazala Hashmi, a Muslim with a history of bashing Virginia voters as racists.
If you live in Virginia, prepare to hear a lot more about race if these two Democrats win. It will seem like old times.
It’s also worth noting that Hashmi helped kill legislation that would allow parents to know if their child identified as transgender while at school.
The Washington Free Beacon has the story:
Ghazala Hashmi, an Indian immigrant who became the first Muslim elected to Virginia’s state senate in 2019, has a long history of smearing the very voters she’ll need to win over as racist, misogynistic, and fascist, a Washington Free Beacon review of her record in public life found.
During an interview with University of Delaware professor Muqtedar Khan after the 2021 gubernatorial election titled,”What Went wrong for the Democrats in Virginia?” Hashmi appeared to agree with Khan’s assessment that a majority of Virginia voters are bigots.
Khan said Governor Glenn Youngkin’s (R.) victory in that year’s contest meant “the majority of voters in Virginia are racist, or at least susceptible to racist dog whistles.”
The election results, according to Khan, showed “the Republicans are winning because the electorate responds to racist dog whistles.”
Hashmi agreed, saying the racism of the Virginia electorate is “very disturbing.”
“What’s really disturbing to [minority groups in Virginia] is this idea that racism is so latent and so much a part of the society that people could respond to these kinds of flagrant dog whistles that we heard throughout the Youngkin campaign,” she said.
Hellbound and Down 