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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
Republicans In Congress Push Back Against DOJ Budget Request
Republicans in Congress are pushing back on the justice department’s budget request, which includes hundreds of millions of dollars in new spending on Democratic priorities such as combatting domestic terrorism, civil rights violations, and gun violence.
Attorney General Merrick Garland made his first appearance before Congress Tuesday, albeit remotely, detailing for a House appropriations subcommittee some of the specific requests included in the administration s proposed budget, including increased funding for immigration judges. There are nearly 1.3 million cases pending before the immigration courts, said Garland in his opening statement.
Garland said the Biden administration inherited a million of those cases, helping to explain the need for an additional $157 million.