Ben Paviour
Ben Paviour is reporting in Virginia as part of The New York Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship. He previously covered courts, criminal justice and state politics for VPM News — with a focus on accountability.
He previously covered politics and culture in Cambodia and lived pre-journalism lives as a tech writer at Google and a program manager for a youth job training program in Alameda County, California.
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A mysterious political group is targeting Democrat Terry McAuliffe and promoting third-party candidate Princess Blanding as they seek to become Virginia’s next governor. -
Republican Glenn Youngkin has stepped up attacks on Dominion Energy in the homestretch of a race against Democrat Terry McAuliffe, including in a new TV ad. But Youngkin has given few indications of how he would handle the powerful Richmond utility if he were elected governor. McAuliffe says he favors more oversight of regulated utilities but has not given details on how that might happen.
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In Virginia, voters will choose a new governor and 100 state lawmakers on Tuesday. Democrats are playing defense in a state that President Biden won by ten points. As Biden’s approval ratings have dropped, polls show the race between Republican Glenn Youngkin and Democrat Terry McAuliffe is a dead heat.
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Voters in Virginia will choose a new governor Tuesday. Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, is running for his seat again, while Republican businessman Glenn Youngkin is a first-time candidate.
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The Virginia Redistricting Commission has missed a final deadline to draw new state legislative maps, kicking the process to the Virginia Supreme Court.
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Youngkin has faced a difficult dilemma from the outset of his campaign: turn out the reddest parts of the state without alienating suburbanites who have handed Democrats every statewide election since 2009.
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A national Republican group helped former GOP Congressman Tom Davis craft a draft congressional map submitted to Virginia’s redistricting commission -- a fact that was not made clear to the public or members of the commission.
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A state grant program meant to help small businesses and nonprofits didn’t reach all applicants equally. On average, Black business owners received less than half as much funding as white entrepreneurs from Rebuild VA, the state’s pandemic grant program, through January 2021.
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Virginia’s first-ever redistricting committee missed its Sunday night deadline to draw state legislative maps. And the path forward seemed as murky as ever during a virtual meeting Monday as partisan tensions continued to flair.
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Republican Glenn Youngkin’s moves to distance himself from false claims of election fraud as he runs for Virginia governor have become complicated by one of his main surrogates: State Sen. Amanda Chase (R-Midlothian).
