FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — Democrat Eugene Vindman has gained his Virginia Home race, preserving the suburban Northern Virginia seat blue after Rep. Abigail Spanberger’s retirement.
Vindman leads Republican Derrick Anderson, 51.1% to 48.9%, with 98% of votes counted, the Related Press stories.
The race in Virginia’s seventh District was thought-about one in every of Republicans’ finest possibilities to flip a Home seat purple this cycle, placing them one seat nearer to defending — or presumably increasing — the GOP Home majority.
Republican Home Speaker Mike Johnson rallied in two crucial Home districts in Virginia on election eve telling the Put up that the “highway to preserving and rising our majority runs immediately by Virginia.”
Johnson appeared at occasions to drum up assist for Anderson and susceptible freshman GOP Rep. Jen Kiggans, who saved her seat within the Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District.
“Inexperienced Beret Derrick Anderson has served our nation and might be a powerful voice for Virginia’s seventh District to safe our border, repair our financial system, and restore peace by energy,” Johnson instructed The Put up.
Anderson ran a good rice towards Vindman, who gained nationwide consideration in 2019 as a whistleblower within the first impeachment try towards the previous president, which was sparked by the Ukrainian-born candidate’s reporting of a cellphone name between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Regardless of his nationwide identify recognition, Vindman ran an under-the-radar marketing campaign, and took part in only one debate towards Anderson.
When he lastly sat down for his first interview of the marketing campaign cycle, he gave the native TV outlet simply 7 minutes. He spent the interview reciting speaking factors and dodging questions on his army document, which has come beneath scrutiny this cycle with claims that he embellished it.
Vindman’s working relationship along with his twin brother Alexander additionally got here beneath scrutiny this cycle for potential conflicts of curiosity.
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