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The most unpopular senator has officially been crowned
1 year, 2 months ago

The most unpopular senator has officially been crowned

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Even as Mr Manchin is one of the most unpopular senators in the country, …

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A potential presidential run for Glenn Youngkin would face logistical hurdles and voter skepticism
1 year, 2 months ago

A potential presidential run for Glenn Youngkin would face logistical hurdles and voter skepticism

Associated Press  

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. But the 56-year-old Youngkin, who in public remarks has demurred but not totally shut the door to a bid, would face logistical campaign difficulties, ballot access hurdles and — according to interviews around the country over the past week — skepticism from some Republican voters, who either don’t know him …

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Virginia’s ‘Moderate’ GOP Governor Is Quietly Funding Anti-Choice Extremists
1 year, 4 months ago

Virginia’s ‘Moderate’ GOP Governor Is Quietly Funding Anti-Choice Extremists

Huff Post  

Glenn Youngkin speaks at the grand opening ceremony for Amazon HQ2 on June 15, 2023, in Arlington, Virginia. Glenn Youngkin’s attempt to appear moderate by calling for a 15-week abortion ban, the Republican governor is quietly funding anti-choice extremist lawmakers, many of whom have said they believe life begins at conception. Spirit of Virginia, Youngkin’s political action committee previously known …

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Virginians oust Democrat who sought abortion limits and Republican who denied 2020 results
1 year, 6 months ago

Virginians oust Democrat who sought abortion limits and Republican who denied 2020 results

Associated Press  

RICHMOND, Va. — Voters ousted two of Virginia’s most controversial political figures in Tuesday’s primary election, along with at least three more of their Senate colleagues. Sen. Joe Morrissey, a political centrist and increasingly rare Democrat who supports limits on abortion access, lost to former state legislator Lashrecse Aird, who calls herself a 100% supporter of abortion rights. Republican Sen. …

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Kentucky and West Virginia move to limit transgender therapies
1 year, 9 months ago

Kentucky and West Virginia move to limit transgender therapies

Al Jazeera  

At least 11 US states have placed restrictions or outright bans on gender-affirming treatments for children. Two states in the southern United States have advanced laws limiting access to gender-affirming therapies for transgender children, as part of a wave of Republican-led legislation critics decry as discriminatory and dangerous. Kentucky and West Virginia join at least nine other states in implementing …

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West Virginia House passes gender-affirming treatment ban
1 year, 11 months ago

West Virginia House passes gender-affirming treatment ban

Associated Press  

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s Republican supermajority House of Delegates passed a bill Friday banning gender-affirming surgery and hormone therapy for minors, a day after crowds descended on the state Capitol to decry the proposal. It provides exceptions for individuals born with a “medically verifiable disorder” including people with “external biological sex characteristics that are irresolvably ambiguous” and for people …

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GOP Reps Miller, Mooney soar to reelection in West Virginia
2 years, 2 months ago

GOP Reps Miller, Mooney soar to reelection in West Virginia

Associated Press  

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Two sitting Republican U.S. representatives in West Virginia have easily overcome challengers to keep their seats in the deep red state’s shrinking congressional delegation. West Virginia hasn’t elected a Democrat to the House since 2012, and was one of only two states where former President Donald Trump won every county in 2016 and in 2020. Miller, another …

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Luria makes final case for democracy, vies for Black voters
2 years, 2 months ago

Luria makes final case for democracy, vies for Black voters

Associated Press  

SUFFOLK, Va. — In the closing days of her campaign, Rep. Elaine Luria stood on a wooden porch in a far-flung part of her newly drawn district, microphone in hand and a 7-year-old Black girl at her side, to make her final case for what is at stake in the midterm elections. “If Luria is going to have a chance …

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AP FACT CHECK: Biden distorts Virginia’s electoral history
3 years, 2 months ago

AP FACT CHECK: Biden distorts Virginia’s electoral history

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Downplaying his party’s loss in Virginia, President Joe Biden suggested that Democrat Terry McAuliffe couldn’t have won the governor’s election based on the state’s history of rejecting candidates in that race when their party occupied the White House. BIDEN: “No governor in Virginia has ever won when he’s of the same, or he or she’s the same party, …

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Republican Glenn Youngkin wins Virginia governor’s race: US media
3 years, 2 months ago

Republican Glenn Youngkin wins Virginia governor’s race: US media

Al Jazeera  

Republican candidate pulls off a stunning upset in Virginia, signalling trouble for Joe Biden’s Democrats in next year’s congressional elections. A Republican candidate has been elected the governor of Virginia, according to US television networks, in a setback for Democrats ahead of next year’s nationwide congressional elections. Youngkin drew sharp criticism from Democrats when he initially hesitated to denounce Trump’s …

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Republicans want more eyes on election workers. Experts worry about their intent
3 years, 2 months ago

Republicans want more eyes on election workers. Experts worry about their intent

NPR  

Republicans want more eyes on election workers. "Remember if any of our theories about potential fraud are true, the cheating can happen at every precinct," says Ned Jones, the Virginia Project's election integrity director, in one of the training videos. "Past experience with similar investigative efforts around the country has raised concerns that they can be directed at minority voters, …

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New redistricting commissions splinter along partisan lines
3 years, 3 months ago

New redistricting commissions splinter along partisan lines

Associated Press  

When voters in some states created new commissions to handle the politically thorny process of redistricting, the hope was that the bipartisan panelists could work together to draw new voting districts free of partisan gerrymandering. The prospects of that increased last week, when Democrats and Republicans on the commission failed to agree and instead released competing versions of new maps …

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Political newcomer Youngkin wins Virginia GOP governor race
3 years, 8 months ago

Political newcomer Youngkin wins Virginia GOP governor race

Associated Press  

FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Glenn Youngkin, a political newcomer who campaigned as a conservative, Christian outsider, bested a field of seven candidates to emerge as Virginia Republicans’ nominee for governor, in a year when the GOP hopes to end a 12-year losing streak in statewide races. In the sixth and final round of counting on Monday night, Youngkin passed the …

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Republican lawmakers caught helping pro-Trump mobs at U.S. Capitol, Oregon statehouse
4 years ago

Republican lawmakers caught helping pro-Trump mobs at U.S. Capitol, Oregon statehouse

Raw Story  

Let's go, keep it moving, baby!" shouted Derrick Evans, a newly elected Republican member of West Virginia's House of Delegates, as he is seen pushing his way through the rotunda at the U.S. Capitol with a throng of violent Trump supporters in a video live-streamed on Facebook. The West Virginia Democratic Party declared in a statement, " must be held …

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Republicans suffer setbacks in US state polls
5 years, 2 months ago

Republicans suffer setbacks in US state polls

India TV News  

US President Donald Trump's Republican Party has suffered setbacks in two states, losing the governorship of Kentucky and the legislature in Virginia a year away from the presidential election. Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin lost re-election very narrowly on Tuesday by less than half-a-per cent or about 5,100 votes, but the loss is significant because Trump had won Kentucky in the …

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