Amo, a former White House aide, defeated a slew of candidates, including several current members of the state legislature,running in the Democratic primaryin September to move on to the general election. He was endorsed by former Democratic Rep. Patrick Kennedy, who held the seat from 1995 to...
One last thing to keep in mind with the 2023 election is turnout. While who shows up always matters, participation in Virginia’s legislative midtermsis usually quite low, so a surge in Democratic or Republican turnout could have an outsized impact on the results. In 2019, about 39 percen...
While Virginia’s state legislature and governorship have swung between parties in recent years, the state has voted for the Democratic candidate for president since 2008. Down the ballot, Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, who was running for reelection, is projected to win against Republican challenger ...
Both chambers of Virginia’s legislature were up on Tuesday, and both parties believed control of each chamber was in play. Democrats went into the election with a narrow Senate majority. The win means Youngkin will not have a free hand to enact his legislative agenda, a blow after he in...
House Speaker Todd Gilbert said he did not believe a measure more restrictive than the governor's current proposal could clear the Legislature. “Let’s use me as an example. I am no less a pro-life member of the Legislature than I’ve ever been. But...
And when I vote this fall–as I will and as I always do, because I’ve already seen how much my state has changed, one election at a time. And because however grumpy I might get about one season’s legislative results, I’m not going to practice childlike citizenship by holding my ...
A new sentencing hearing for brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez in the killing of their parents has been delayed for nearly two months because of Southern California’s wildfires Associated PressJan. 17, 2025 US Accuses Walgreens of Filling Millions of Illegitimate Prescri...
The legislative branch is composed of a 34-member Senate and a 100-member House of Delegates. Currently, West Virginia has a Republicantrifectawhere the Republican Party controls the governorship and both houses of the West Virginia Legislature. In 2023, the Senate included 31 Republican legislator...
In 2023, we regained control of the House of Delegates AND maintained our pro-choice majority in the Senate. These wins ensured that more than one in three members in both chambers of the Virginia legislature were women. Women Win With Us ...
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