Virginia elections update
Around the horn in Old Dominion, with one month until the primaries
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Primaries on the Clock
The Virginia primaries are one month away (June 17) and heating up, with two weeks of early voting already in the bag. As Jarvis and I discussed during Wednesday’s Substack Live, the battles for lieutenant governor have been surprisingly wild.
Despite being the only candidate qualified for the ballot for the Republican nomination, openly gay conservative talkshow host John Reid has drawn a write-in challenge from Republican John Curran.
The Reid scandal — including Gov. Glenn Youngkin calling on him to drop out of the race, and a secret audio recording which parties dispute showing an effort to push Reid from the race — continues to be perhaps the hottest storyline in the primaries.
But battles among Democratic candidates are kicking up, with six contenders for lieutenant governor battling it out and a pair of candidates for attorney general scrapping over who’s best positioned to take on the Trump administration.
For AG, former delegate Jay Jones and longtime Henrico are both up on the air now with ads introducing themselves. As The Virginian-Pilot reports, the big battle seems less on what they would do in office and more on who’s most experienced at accomplishing those prosecutorial goals.
Attention Grabbing
You don’t often find political candidates outing their own (possible) sex scandal. (Arguable what counts as a sex scandal these days.) But that’s what Democratic longshot candidate Yvonne Rorrer did last weekend, declaring she’s a swinger, or in an ethically non-monogamous relationship with her husband of 22 years.
Rorrer said she made the announcement “because I believe in radical honesty, and I refuse to live in the shadows waiting for information to be leaked.
Whether this changes anything remains to be seen, the district bordering North Carolina, has voted overwhelmingly Republican for at least a decade now, according to the Virginia Public Access Project.
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