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Biden: ‘Confusion' Contributed to Democrat's Loss in Virginia Gov. Election
When asked about his responsibility for Democrat Terry McAuliffe’s loss in Virginia’s governor’s race, President Biden said that people are experiencing “a whole lot of confusion” and said that his agenda is “overwhelmingly popular.”
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Takeaways From Tuesday's Elections: Bad Omens for Democrats
The off-year elections for governor in Virginia and New Jersey tend to receive outsize attention
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‘We Came Up Short': Terry McAuliffe Concedes Virginia Governor's Race
Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor, conceded the race Wednesday to Republican Glennn Youngkin. Youngkin prevailed with 51% of the vote, NBC News projected after midnight. McAuliffe said in a statement after 9 a.m. Wednesday: “While last night we came up short, I am proud that we spent this campaign fighting for the values we so deeply believe…
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Election Day Fallout: Youngkin's Virginia Win Jolts Dems, Tight Race in NJ
Republican former business executive Glenn Youngkin has won Virginia’s governor’s race, a major political turnabout in a state that had been trending increasingly blue
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Republican Glenn Youngkin Wins Virginia Governor's Race, NBC News Projects
Republican Glenn Youngkin has won the race for Virginia governor, NBC News projects, defeating Terry McAuliffe in a race that’s been watched around the nation as a bellwether for the 2022 midterm elections.
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Republican Glenn Youngkin Beats Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia Governor's Race
Glenn Youngkin won Virginia’s hotly contested gubernatorial election, defeating Democrat Terry McAuliffe.
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GOP Pollster Sees Likely Republican Win in Virginia Governor Race — and Says It Will Be a Bad Omen for Democrats
Frank Luntz, a GOP pollster and strategist, told CNBC on Tuesday that there’s about an 80% chance that Republican Glenn Youngkin beats Democrat Terry McAuliffe.
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Frustrated Democratic Donors Threaten to Hold Back Midterm Donations Over Infighting in Congress, Tight Virginia Race
Several Democratic donors have warned leaders that they may hold back on donations for next year’s midterm elections unless the party can get some big wins.
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Biden Ties Republican in Race for Va. Governor to Trump
President Joe Biden is framing the Virginia governor’s race as a repudiation of his predecessor, tying the Republican candidate to former President Donald Trump
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Former Carlyle Group CEO Could Knock Democrats Out of Virginia's Governor's Office. Here's What to Know
Without any other big races this fall, all eyes are on Virginia as Democrats try to weather a decline in President Joe Biden’s approval ratings.
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Top Democrats Woo Black Voters in Tight Virginia Governor's Race
Voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams was in Norfolk, Virginia, on Sunday to urge Black churchgoers to turn out for Democrat Terry McAuliffe in next month’s Virginia governor’s election.
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Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki May Have Violated Ethics Law With Comment on Virginia Race, Watchdog Says
CREW said Psaki’s alleged ethics breach was nowhere near as egregious as the many Hatch Act violations in former President Donald Trump’s administration.
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Pro-Science Group Launches Ads to Push GOP Governors to Reject Conspiracy Theories in Education Policy
A science advocacy group is launching a $10 million campaign aimed at pushing GOP governors to reject conspiracy theories in education policy.
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Biden Campaigns for McAuliffe in Closely Watched Virginia Gubernatorial Race
President Joe Biden traveled a few miles across the Potomac River on Friday evening to stump for former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who is in a crucial race to retake his old job. It was Biden’s first in-person campaign event appearance since becoming president — one in which an estimated 3,000 supporters gathered in a park in Arlington, some without masks,...
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Terry McAuliffe Going to New York to Raise Campaign Cash for Virginia Gubernatorial Campaign
Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe is going to New York to raise campaign cash.
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Dramatic Photos: Violent Clashes at White Nationalist Rally in Virginia
A car plowed into a crowd of peaceful counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12, 2017, killing at least one person and wounding dozens others. Earlier, hundreds of white nationalists and counter-protesters chanted, threw punches, hurled water bottles and unleashed chemical sprays on each other. Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency. The…
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Inmate Executed for Killing Two in Virginia
Virginia has executed an inmate for killing 2 men during 2006 escape. It is the first lethal injection under new, more secretive protocol.
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Planned Execution of William Morva in Virginia Stirs Mental Illness Debate
“Somebody wants me to die.”...
That’s what William Morva told his mother in a phone call from a Virginia jail where he was being held on attempted robbery charges more than a decade ago, NBC News reported....
His lawyers say it’s part of the evidence that he was in the grips of a delusional disorder when he subsequently made a bloody escape,... -
Virginia Honors Pair Who Challenged Interracial Marriage Ban
When Richard and Mildred Loving had the audacity to marry, Virginia law officers jailed them. The state’s highest court later agreed it was right to outlaw their marriage because he was white and she was black. Now, a half century after the Lovings won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized interracial marriage nationwide, the couple has been honored...
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Ivanka Trump Signals Flexibility on Paid Parental Leave
A proposal for paid parental leave championed by Ivanka Trump could go back to the drawing board....
Two weeks after the plan was outlined in President Donald Trump’s budget proposal, his daughter and adviser signaled she is open to other strategies for providing the benefit for new parents. Ivanka Trump met this week with a bipartisan group of scholars pitching a...