The return of the political trifecta Democrats enjoyed during the 2020 and 2021 General Assembly sessions – now bolstered with a 64-36 majority in the House of Delegates – leaves the question of how to deal with Virginia’s energy issues entirely in their hands.
Democrats swept the statewide races and flipped 13 House of Delegates seats Tuesday — a watershed in Virginia politics. Any analysis of the Blue Wave must take into account the vast discrepancy in fundraising prowess of Democrats over Republicans, not just in the statewide races but in the House races as well.
The Democrats not only swept the top three statewide offices, but they flipped 13 seats in the House of Delegates. Every corner of the commonwealth was at lest tinged blue.
It’s almost as if voters have forgotten what happened a short five years ago when Democrat Ralph Northam - the worst governor of Virginia - shut down schools for more than a year, locked us out of our churches and synagogues and forced even five year olds to walk around in filthy, useless face diapers.
Abigail Spanberger proudly endorsed a Virginia constitutional amendment that permits the murder of viable babies until the moment of birth.
Last week, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” panelists argued that Abigail Spanberger wasn’t dominating the Virginia gubernatorial race because of sexism. The gaffe prompted her opponent, Winsome Earle-Sears, to post on X, “Who wants to tell them?”
As other states - without constitutional restrictions against gerrymandering - rush to redraw congressional maps along political lines, Virginia’s Democratic leadership is frantically working to join in the gerrymandering frenzy while they control both chambers of the General Assembly.
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