State Races

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.

In an unexpected twist, a controversy involving pop superstar Taylor Swift has become a new angle of attack in the Virginia governor’s race.

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.

Virginia’s next governor will have a range of commitments and goals to meet on clean energy, water quality and more.

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).

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.

Former and possibly future Gov. Terry McAuliffe says his Republican rival, Glenn Youngkin, would end abortions in Virginia.

Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin disagreed sharply, sometimes personally, on a host of issues Friday night during their first gubernatorial debate.

In a recent TV ad, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe says Glenn Youngkin, his Republican opponent, “called COVID relief ‘unnecessary,’” a charge the two candidates have been tussling over since June. We fact-checked the claim and found McAuliffe has taken liberty with Youngkin’s position on the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that sent $1,400 checks to many people and aid to state and local governments.

Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin says Virginia’s public education has suffered in recent years and puts some of the blame on Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe, who led the state from 2014 to 2018.