FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) Virginia Republicans completed a sweep of down-ballot statewide offices Wednesday, with victories for attorney general and lieutenant governor, including the first Black woman ever to be elected statewide in the commonwealth.
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) Virginia Republicans completed a sweep of down-ballot statewide offices Wednesday, with victories for attorney general and lieutenant governor, including the first Black woman ever to be elected statewide in the commonwealth.
Republican Winsome Sears, who returned to Virginia politics after an absence of nearly two decades, has become the first female lieutenant governor and the first woman of color to win statewide office in Virginia. Sears defeated Democrat Hala Ayala in Tuesday’s election. Ayala also would have been the first woman of color to hold statewide office if she had won.
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FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Republican Jason Miyares has been elected Virginia’s attorney general, defeating two-term incumbent Mark Herring after a campaign in which Miyares sought to portray Herring as