Virginia Republicans meet today â sort of â to pick their nominees for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general.
Itâs safe to say this will be the most unusual and most unpredictable convention the party has ever held.
How do you hold a convention during a pandemic?
Hereâs how: Convention delegates will go to one of 37 drive-in sites around the state to cast their ballots. Thatâs not even the most unusual part of the process: Virginia Republicans will be using ranked-choice voting, which means Republicans delegates will list their first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh choices for governor.
Virginia Republicans meet today â sort of â to pick their nominees for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general. Itâs safe to say this will be the most unusual and most unpredictable the convention the party has ever held.
How do you hold a convention during a pandemic? Hereâs how: Convention delegates will go to one of 37 drive-in sites around the state to cast their ballots. Thatâs not even the most unusual part of the process: Virginia Republicans will be using ranked-choice voting, which means Republicans delegates will list their first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh choices for governor.
Tens of thousands of Virginia Republicans will head to community colleges, church parking lots and county fairgrounds on Saturday to choose nominees in what activists and officials say remains an unpredictable battle for the near-term future of a party that has not won a statewide election in a dozen years.
For the candidates vying for the right to run for governor under the Republican banner, the divergent options they present to voters is less about how to move on from former President Trump
The delegates will choose among seven contenders running for the Republican nomination to replace Gov. Ralph Northam (D), who is limited to serving one term. Most strategists and activists believe the race will come down to three leading contenders: Venture capitalist Pete Snyder, a major donor who ran for lieutenant governor in 2013; Glenn Youngkin, a former chief executive of the Carlyle Group making his first run for public office; and state Sen. Amanda Chase, an archconservative who a
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It’s got to be some kind of justice. Maybe the only kind Virginia Republicans can deliver.
Across the country, Trump-era Republicans have grown obsessed with various forms of voter access they believe advantage Democrats most notably, letting as many folks who are eligible cast ballots. That’s the kind of “voter fraud,” they insist, that elected Joe Biden president, and Barack Obama before him. It must be stopped, they say.
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With voting now underway in Virginiaâs Democratic primary (through June 8) and voting next week in the Republican convention (May 8), weâre finally getting some clarity, or at least, better questions on the respective races.
Among them:
1. Why is no one attacking Terry McAuliffe? The former governor, who hopes to pull a modern day Mills Godwin by serving two nonconsecutive terms, is clearly the front-runner in the Democratic contest. The latest poll, from the Wason Center for Civic Leadership at Christopher Newport University, shows McAuliffe at 47% and no other candidate higher than 8%. Why, then, arenât the other four candidates â Del. Lee Carter, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, former Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy, state Sen. Jennifer McClellan â being more forceful in attacking McAuliffe? They seem to be acting as if thereâs plenty of time left to make their cases when, in fact, itâs really the morning of a very extended El