Virginia governor's race shaping up as a key post-Trump test
Advertisement Virginia’s gubernatorial contests — always held a year after a presidential election — are often viewed as a referendum on the party holding the White House, and that is usually bad news for that party. In most Virginia gubernatorial elections, the victor has come from the party not in the White House. But the state in recent years has tilted increasingly Democratic — Biden won it by more than 10 percentage points, about twice Hillary Clinton’s margin in 2016. Republicans have not won a statewide election since 2009. Republicans improved their chances of ending that lo...
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