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AP
The recount, set for July 31, will decide whether state Sen. John McGuire will hold onto his narrow victory over U.S. Rep. Bob Good, one of the most conservative members of Congress.
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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. -
Crixell Matthews/In the closing week of Virginia’s gubernatorial campaign, both major-party candidates are repeating debunked claims about the other’s tax policies.
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Virginia’s 66th House of Delegates district has been represented by Republican and former Speaker of the House Kirk Cox since 1990. He's not running this year, and Democrats see this as one of their few chances to pick up a seat in the election.
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Crixell Matthews/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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Crixell Matthews/With Election Day less than a week away in Virginia, officials at the Department of Elections are hoping to reduce confusion around the vote counting process. Last year’s results were dogged nationally by unfounded allegations of election fraud and poor security. No major issues have been uncovered.
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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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Former President Barack Obama was in Richmond Saturday throwing his support behind Terry McAuliffe’s campaign.
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Crixell Matthews/Former and perhaps future Gov. Terry McAuliffe is not mincing his words on the COVID-19 vaccine, stamped the anti-vaxxer label on his opponent.
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Election security has become a hot topic of discussion over the last few years. But election officials across the commonwealth have been making sure that elections, like the upcoming one for governor, are safe and secure.
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Crixell Matthews/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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In a meeting on Wednesday, the Virginia Redistricting Commission cancelled both of its remaining public hearings and meetings, citing a failure to agree on criteria for map drawing. Like in previous meetings, commissioners found themselves at a partisan stalemate. -
We fact-checked an often-made Youngkin claim that Virginia has the lowest baselines for student proficiency on its standardized tests. This comparison only measures the rigor of various state standards, however, not how well students are learning.
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If elected, Blanding would not only be the first Black woman to lead Virginia’s, or any state’s, executive branch, she would also be the first openly LGBTQIA+ person to occupy the office.
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin is making baseless claims that his Democratic opponent, Terry McAuliffe, has urged the White House to ”sic the FBI” on Virginia parents attending local school board meetings.
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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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In an unexpected twist, a controversy involving pop superstar Taylor Swift has become a new angle of attack in the Virginia governor’s race.
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Running for reelection, Attorney General Mark Herring is slamming his opponent, Rep. Jason Miyares, for sending people to jail for marijuana possession and petty theft as an Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney in Virginia Beach.
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Virginia’s next governor will have a range of commitments and goals to meet on clean energy, water quality and more.
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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).
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Princess Blanding was excluded from the gubernatorial debate on Tuesday despite qualifying for the ballot as the Liberation Party candidate. But as a community activist who began her political career as a protester for social justice, Blanding didn’t wait for a place on the stage to make her voice heard.
