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James Trout's avatar

It's official, Abigail Spanberger is THE Democratic nominee for Governor of Virginia. The deadline was today, nobody filed to run against her on our side, so she wins automatically. Her name will NOT be on the Democratic primary ballot here in the Old Dominion! #Spanberger2025

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Harrison Konigstein's avatar

Did Amanda Chase and Merle Rutledge get enough signatures to make the Republican primary?

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Mike in MD's avatar

Chase thinks she submitted enough signatures to qualify; it remains to be seen if enough are valid. Another potential GOP primary challenger, Dave LaRock, fell short.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/04/03/virginia-governor-chase-earle-sears/

Nobody other than Spanberger filed on the Democratic side; Rep. Bobby Scott had been talked about but he never really seemed to do anything to actually set up a campaign. Which means that whatever happens VA is probably guaranteed its first woman governor.

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homerun1's avatar

Hopefully, Chase makes it onto the ballot. Would be great if the GOP has an ugly, nasty primary brawl , while our candidate Spanberger can start her general election campaign now: Fundraising and campaigning around the state and organizing resources and volenteers for November.

Also, it would be interesting which of those 2 horrible women, Chase or Earle-Sears, Trump endorses.

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JanusIanitos's avatar

How do our LG and AG primaries look? On wiki it looks like our primary for LG is busy while there's only two democrats running for AG. Are there any interesting delegate primaries?

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